Quotes About Predestination

God is one "who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will" (v. 11), and not one who considers man's permission and opinion. Since there is divine sovereignty, there is no human freedom, or free will – "only an insane person could believe both of these."[86]

The Bible affirms active reprobation, active hardening, and active judgment.

we can credit our salvation only to God's sovereign appointment, and not to a person's choice to follow Christ. This is because a person's choice is not free, but God is the one who causes his choice (Romans 9:18), so that no one may boast before him.

Jesus is saying that no one can have faith in him unless chosen and compelled by the Father.

not the human individuals themselves who chooses those who would come to Christ, it follows that it is the Father who chooses who would receive salvation, and not the human individuals themselves.

The Bible does not teach both divine sovereignty and human freedom, but it teaches both divine sovereignty and human responsibility.

Faith is not the cause of election, but election is the cause of faith.

We are saved because God chose us, not because we chose him.

God is the one who decides whether a person will have faith in Christ, since faith is a gift from God (Ephesians 2:8). A person who is spiritually dead cannot produce or exercise faith – God must first regenerate him.

Arminianism says that it is man who chooses whether he will accept Christ, but Jesus says, "You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit – fruit that will last" (John 15:16).

Jesus said, "You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you" (John 15:16), but

I believe in fate, never in chance.

There's no such thing as chance, it's all preordained.Lik e KISMET.

We may rest assured that God would never have suffered any infants to be slain except those who were already damned and predestined for eternal death.

I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.

In some ways, Mary thought, Irma lived her whole life anxious to get things over with, as if she knew the end of her story all along, and didn't feel the middle pages worth the effort of a read.

Divine grace is the power of chance beclouded with additional mystery. … Religion denies, repudiates chance, making everything dependent on God, explaining everything by means of him; … the divine will … determines or predestines some to evil and misery, others to good and happiness, has not a single positive characteristic to distinguish it from the power of chance. The mystery of the election of grace is thus the mystery of chance.

It was all written. When life is going to be breathed into you, and when it's going to be taken away. Each person's mission on earth is pre-planned.

Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being.

I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints; our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man's portion of joy and sorrow is predetermined.

Know, he that foretells his own calamity, and makes events before they come, twice over, doth endure the pains of evil destiny.

Of course you have to believe in destiny; that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.