Quotes About Predestination

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

God predestined His chosen people.

Election indeed is first in order of divine acting, God chooseth before we believe; yet

Definite atonement refers not only to the intended target of the atonement—namely, the elect—but also to its efficacy: the atonement achieves its purpose, full and final salvation for the elect.

The atonement does not make possible the spiritual quickening of all people; it makes certain and effective the spiritual quickening of the elect. That is the conclusion of Paul's teaching on grace in Ephesians 1:4–6 and 2:4–5.

We did not happen to be--we were chosen by God to exist.

A man is not saved because he believes in Christ, he believes in Christ because he is saved.

To get rid of predestination we have been willing to degrade our God into a godling.

How do we know that God has elected us before the creation of the world? By believing in Jesus Christ.

There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.

Glory in nothing, but only in this, that you are in Christ. For God chose you in him; the being you had was in him before the world was.

Election is an act of God before creation in which He chooses some people to be saved, not on account of any foreseen merit in them, but only because of His sovereign good pleasure.

What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.

The will of God is eternal because He does not begin to will what He did not will before, nor cease to will what He willed before.

This crown of free will is fallen from our head" and "If it be God's purpose that saves then it is not free will.

I embrace the purpose of God and the doom assigned.

God purposed redemption in Christ Jesus before the world began, and His plan does not need any editing by man.

To me, Calvinism means the placing of the eternal God at the head of all things.

The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.

We never know who they are that God will draw, and have nothing to do with it. Our duty is to invite all, and leave it to God to choose the vessels of mercy.

Long before you were conceived by your parents, you were conceived in the mind of God.

I think what Calvinism may offer us is that God's in charge of his world.

God is absolutely sovereign, but his sovereignty never mitigates human responsibility.

Everything that happens is determined by God.