Quotes About Predestination

That which God writes on thy forehead thou wilt come to it.

It's as if my footprints were already on the road before I even got there.I walk into them, my waiting footprints.

MADE FOR TELEVISION!' said Owen Meany.

It made him furious when I suggested that anything was an "accident"—especially anything that had happened to him; on the subject of predestination, Owen Meany would accuse Calvin of bad faith. There were no accidents; there was a reason for that baseball—just as there was a reason for Owen being small, and a reason for his voice.

Arminians pretend, very speciously, that Christ died for all men, yet, in effect, they make him die for no one man at all.

What God predetermine proves true!

My path was predetermined by God.

Fate, no doubt, had a hand in it.

Knowing that you knew everything about us before we were bornLord, your love is amazing

Effie Seabright, we've been fated to meet you for a long time.

Whatever may befall thee, it was preordained for thee from everlasting.

Whatever happens to you has been waiting to happen since the beginning of time.

Whatever may befall you, it was preordained for you from everlasting.

It was ordained at the beginning of the world that certain signs should prefigure certain events.

Everything is foreseen, yet freedom of choice is granted.

Every divine appointment is preceded by a season of preparation. And if we submit to the preparation, God will fulfill His promise. If we don't, He won't. Why? Because God never sets us up to fail.

Lest anyone think that any action, however required or useful, could be a source of pride, Sibbes preached that "it is a sottish conceit to think that we can fit ourselves for grace, as if a child in the womb could forward its natural birth. If God hath made us men, let us not make ourselves gods."107

Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.

I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be. Was I always going to be here? No I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, truck driver, or any kind of job that would get me a crust of bread. You never know what's going to happen.

THIS, therefore, is also essentially necessary and wholesome for Christians to know: That God foreknows nothing by contingency, but that He foresees, purposes, and does all things according to His immutable, eternal, and infallible will. By this thunderbolt, "Free-will" is thrown prostrate, and utterly dashed to pieces.

Quem Jupiter vult perdere, dementat prius. Whom God would destroy, He first sends mad. Homeri Gnomologia James Duport, 1606-1679

We are wrapped around a mystery to which we were drawn before we were born.

But the past always seems, perhaps wrongly, to be predestined.

El verdadero amor siempre es predestinado. El mismo fue ordenado desde antes de la creación del tiempo. Entre las coincidencias, es la que más preparación ha tenido. Y el destino, por supuesto, no es otra cosa que un término secular para la voluntad de Dios, y coincidencia de su gracia.