Quotes About Foreknowledge

If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him; but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.

Nature has a language of its own, or maybe those who have lived long in solitude read in it their own unconscious inner feelings and mysterious foreknowledge.

Learn how to think a few moves ahead at once. In life, if you can anticipate the human mind, you can anticipate all possible futures.

Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.

She always read the end of a book first because she couldn't wait to find out how things would turn out.

God does not hinder the exercise of human freedom but rather anticipates its consequences.

If you want to know the outcome of a game before the game has even started, you need to control each side.

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.

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.

Faith is, necessary to explain anything, and to reconcile the foreknowledge of God with human evil.

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

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.

Everyone who believes in God at all believes that he knows what you and I are going to do tomorrow.

The heavenly Father foreknew the future.

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

Okay, I'm guessing you're gonna give us the bad news first because there's no good news?

It's waiting for us: it seems to know.

I've spoken to people who I swear can tell the future.

You understand there's no such thing as a little death prophecy, right? - Sam

And sometimes, too, she knew what someone was about to say before they said it or what mundane incident was about to occur—if a dish was about to be dropped or an apple thrown through a glasshouse, as if these things had happened many times before. Words and phrases echoed themselves, strangers seemed like old acquaintances.

You never know ahead of time what something is really going to be like.

But this denoted a foregone conclusion.

In depression this faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy will come—not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute…. And this results in a striking experience—one which I have called, borrowing military terminology, the situation of the walking wounded.