Quotes About Predestination

The salvation of the elect was as certain before His advent, though accomplished by it, as afterwards.

to repudiate the election of God is to repudiate the God of election.

Please understand. This happened before her birth. She was born this way. Nothing you or anyone else did caused it. Understand? This isn't your fault. In Jeremiah, doesn't God say, 'Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee'?" "He does!" she says, shocked to hear a Bible verse from this worldly man.

Where history showed us only ramparts and frontiers, poetry discovered a mysterious predestination that makes two adversaries, whose meeting is inexorable, worthy of each other. And Homer asks no quarter, save from poetry, which repossesses beauty from death and wrests from it the secret of justice that history cannot fathom. To the darkened world poetry alone restores pride, eclipsed by the arrogance of the victors and the silence of the vanquished.

Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.

Major Major's father had a Calvinist's faith in predestination and could perceive distinctly how everyone's misfortunes but his own were expressions of God's will.

God decided to love us before we even arrived on planet earth. The only thing that stands between us and God's love is our being willing to believe Him and receive it.

Fate has no scruples.

How perfect were the dictates of fate!

John 6:44 looks at the matter from the Godward side and declares, quite rightly, that no one ever made the first move toward God. We come to God only because God draws us. On the other hand, as the texts about the open door show, God does not show favoritism. Anyone, regardless of who he or she is or where he or she comes from, may be among that number.

Jeremiah 1:5: "Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you; before you were born, I set you apart.

None of God's elect die before they are converted.

I'm a strong believer in destiny. I believe you are born to do certain things.

Every man who has a calling to minister to the inhabitants of the world was ordained to that very purpose in the Grand Council of heaven before this world was. I suppose I was ordained to this very office in that Grand Council.

The new architecture and urban design of segregation could be called Calvinist: they reflect a desire to live in a world of predestination rather than chance, to strip the world of its wide-open possibilities and replace them with freedom of choice in the marketplace.

Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and the decrees of God.

Let no man seek Henceforth to be foretold that shall befall Him or his children.

mother says that two souls are sometimes created together and--and in love before they're born.

If every child might live the life predestined in a mother's heart, all the way from the cradle to the coffin, he would walk upon a beam of light, and shine in glory.

From the day I was conceived in my mother's womb, God predestined what I become.

Some of the Fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination, as a thing divine, and reserved for the felicities of heaven itself.

Let that ethical philosophy therefore of free-will be far from a Christian mind.