Quotes About Foreknowledge

All prophecy is based on God's Foreknowledge, but it does not predetermine human conduct or events.

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

we are in the position of a person who knows the ending of a book and who for amusement, is reading the early chapters. We enjoy them once again; but we are hardly thrilled and excited by them anymore, we know what happened

Inside Lydia could feel it: everything that was to come . . . It was far away then, tiny in the distance, but Lydia already knew it would happen. The knowledge hovered all around her, clinging to her, every day getting thicker. Everywhere she went, it was there.

How do I know what's coming? I always do know. Something around the eyes.

Emerson said, "The soul contains the event that shall befall it.

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

I knew you'd come, once you saw the site," Libby said. "I knew you'd find me.

Later, much later, she said the same, that it was love pre first site, that she'd walked around that whole morning and afternoon somehow knowing that this would be the last first date of her life.

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

I have an innate instinct for knowing what's going to work.

Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I dedicated you, a prophet to the nations I appointed you" (Jer. 1:5).

Qui non est hodie eras minus aptus erit. He who is not prepared today will be less so tomorrow.

Section 2: Preview of Things to Come

prognostication

Because I want to see. I've got to know what's going to happen while I'm still enough in control to be able to do something about it.

The idea of hell disappeared from educated thought, even from pulpit homilies. Presbyterians became ashamed of the Westminster Confession, which had pledged them to belief in a God who had created billions of men and women despite his foreknowledge that, regardless of their virtues and crimes, they were predestined to everlasting hell.

Innocence is innocent not because it rejects but because it accepts; is innocent not because it is impervious and invulnerable to everything, but because it is capable of accepting anything and still remaining innocent; innocent because it foreknows all and therefore doesn't have to fear and be afraid.

there's always somebody handy afterward to prove their foresight by your hindsight.

Did you ever think how monotonous your life would be if you could see all that was coming to you?

What's the opposite of déjà vu, when you see something that hasn't happened yet?" "I don't know—avant verrais?

Smell is a long-distance sense, a way of stretching time and finding out in advance what lies ahead.

Call it a hunch; and hunches don't just materialise, you pay for them with hard-earned experience. No such thing as a free hunch.

is waiting, the audience is secretly aware that