Quotes About Predestination

Your birth was no mistake or mishap, and your life is no fluke of nature. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. He was not at all surprised by your birth. In fact, he expected it.

Long before you were conceived by your parents, you were conceived in the mind of God. He thought of you first. It is not fate, nor chance, nor luck, nor coincidence that you are breathing at this very moment. You are alive because God wanted to create you! The Bible says, "The LORD will fulfill his purpose for me.

God was thinking of you even before he made the world. In fact, that's why he created it! God designed this planet's environment just so we could live in it. We are the focus of his love and the most valuable of all his creation.

Your life must now run the course that's been set for it.

Your lives are set out for you. You'll become adults, then before you're old, before you're even middle-aged, you'll start to donate your vital organs. That's what each of you was created to do. You're not like the actors you watch on your videos, you're not even like me. You were brought into this world for a purpose, and your futures, all of them, have been decided.

God knows the end from the beginning.

A young woman asked the great preacher Charles Spurgeon if it was possible to reconcile God's sovereignty and man's responsibility. "Young woman," said he. "You don't reconcile friends

Maybe some things are just meant to be. maybe some things just happen, no matter what.

To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle.

there were no coincidences in the world of the supernatural.

God was thinking of you long before you ever thought about him. His purpose for your life predates your conception. He planned it before you existed, without your input!

Preparing you for these two questions is the goal of this book. The first question will determine where you spend eternity. The second question will determine what you do in eternity. By the end of this book you will be ready to answer both questions.

To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.

My dear Stephanie . . ." Stephanie froze. China looked at her. "I've known your name since before I met you, child. Your uncle spoke of you often.

No matter where you are in life right now, know this: God put you on this earth to fulfill the promise He has predestined for your life.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart.

Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.

Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

It's not like I'm a Buddhist or anything, but I think we've all got, to a certain extent, a predestined life. My journey took me from Boston to Philadelphia to Oakland to Los Angeles and then as a broadcaster. I've been fortunate.

Wilt snare me with predestination 'round," Margraves quoted, "and then impute my fall to sin?

everything is foreordained and it was bound to happen anyway. But even so, it's nice to think one was an instrument used by predestination.

What I want is a housekeeper. If I shaved every Sunday and went to church I'd get all the housekeepers I'd want. I'd be respectable then. But what's the use of going to church when it's all settled by predestination? Tell me that, Miss.