Quotes About Predestination

It's all written out, you know. Everything is fate. All written out in Heaven, or written out in Hell.

Digging into the creation of the Puritan mind-set involved really trying to wrap my head around extreme Calvinism and what that's all about. I now understand predestination, and I had to read the Geneva Bible cover-to-cover and read the gospels quite a bit to get into that world.

As believers in Christ, we are part of Him-God the Father decided before the foundation of the world that anyone who loved Christ would be loved and accepted by Him.

Wyrd biõ ful ãræd," I said. Fate is fate. It cannot be changed or cheated.

Wyrd bið ful ?ræd.

Wyrd bið ful ?ræd. The

Wyrd bi ful aræd, we say, and it is true. Fate is inexorable.

Wyrd bið ful ãræd," I told Finan. Fate is inexorable.

Those He predestined, He also called; and those He called, He also justified; and those He justified, He also glorified. Romans 8:30

By the time we were knit in our mothers' wombs, our lives were like open books before Him--every sentence read, every paragraph indented, every chapter titled, every page numbered. He knew it all in advance--all the sin, all the selfishness, every weakness. Yet He chose to love us--lavishly.

My Child, I knew every difficulty you would face in life. I suffered each one with you. I loved you and had a plan for your life before you were born. This plan has not changed, no matter what happened or what you have done.

One of the most mysterious aspects about God communicated in Scripture is that His knowledge about what would transpire didn't necessarily preclude His heightened hopes of something different. He didn't always spare Himself the shock of something appalling, even though He saw it coming. Even a predestined conclusion didn't spare God the emotion of the result. Perhaps most significantly, knowing why didn't keep God from asking why (Isaiah 5:4 and Mark 15:34).

Those He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son. Romans 8:29

It does not depend on human will and effort, but on God who shows mercy. Romans 9:16

We speak God's hidden wisdom in a mystery, which God predestined before the ages for our glory. 1 Corinthians 2:7

I don't know much about the Presbyterian faith, but the atmosphere alone was enough to put me off predestination.

God's love did not begin at the cross. It began in eternity before the world was established, before the time clock of civilization began to move.

Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there's no such thing as coincidence.

I feel like whatever is meant is meant. I feel like this is already written.

Fate is written in the face.

We will never be more that we have been destined to be!

For a man does not therefore sin because God foreknew that he would sin. Nay, it cannot be doubted but that it is the man himself who sins when he does sin, because He, whose foreknowledge is infallible, foreknew not that fate, or fortune, or something else would sin, but that the man himself would sin, who, if he wills not, sins not. But if he shall not will to sin, even this did God foreknow.

Incomprehensible and immutable is the love wherewith God loves. He did not begin to love us only on the day we were reconciled to Him by the blood of His Son; He loved us before the world was made, that we too might become His sons together with His Only-begotten Son, long before we had any existence....

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.