Quotes About Predestination

If God did not act first, no one would be saved.

God never repents of what He has first resolved upon.

For those whom God to ruin has design'd, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.

Of all the doctrines of the Bible none is so offensive to human nature as the doctrine of God's sovereignty.

Creatures are so governed by the secret counsel of God, that nothing happens but what he has knowingly and willingly decreed.

Your damnation is your own election, not God's.

If there is Predestination, then God is the devil. by Remy, Ravensbruck concentration camp survivor

God is not pre or post anything. He is present to everything. ... There is not predestination but destination, not predestiny but destiny. This follows from divine omniscience and eternity.

Either the future is subject to chance--in which case nobody, not even a god, can affect it one way or the other--or it is predestined, in which case foreknowledge cannot avert it.

No free will of the creature can resist the will of God

For the Arminian, salvation is possible for all but certain for none. In the Calvinist position, salvation is sure for God's elect.

Whatever may be said about the doctrine of election, it is written in the Word of God as with an iron pen, and there is no getting rid of it.

Regardless of the circumstances that surrounded your arrival, you are not an accident. God planned you before you were born.

The heavenly Father foreknew the future.

God has a plan and a predetermined place on earth and in the Kingdom of God for every one of us

God already knew the ones who would be saved, even before their birth

It's a good thing God chose me before I was born, because he surely would not have afterwards.

Keep sharing the good news; we have not yet exhausted the number of God's elect.

We have history, you and I. You just don't know it yet.

And I have discovered that God had it all planned, even before I had caught on to it.

No cesamos absurdamente de esforzarnos por conseguir riqueza o felicidad, prolongar la vida y continua salud, porque no podemos, por ningún esfuerzo, cambiar lo que está predestinado.

Fate will find a way.

I have always believed that there is no such thing as coincidence, and I have always believed in destiny.

It is God's purpose in our salvation that we should be holy, and therefore those who are predestined to salvation are predestined to holiness.