Quotes About Foreknowledge

Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life.

In fact, his silent foreknowledge of the conspiracy suggests that he was not without sympathy with them

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.

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." --Quintus Tullius Cicero

We all have choices. But our decisions are already known.

I don't necessarily call myself a psychic, but since I was a little girl, I would dream about things, and then I would tell my dad, and it would happen the next day.

Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.

but the true test of prescience was to see the past in the future.

He realized suddenly that it was one thing to see the past occupying the present, but the true test of prescience was to see the past in the future.

completely accurate and total prediction is lethal.

The Mahdi will be aware of things others cannot see," went the prophecy.

Prophecy can be defined as God's revelation regarding history in advance. The backdrop is that only God—who is omniscient (or all-knowing)—knows the future.

For all we know, the handwriting might have been on the wall all along. The question is: was the ink invisible?

a conocer las conclusiones antes

I was doing it again, jumping around. But it was so hard to start at the beginning when you knew how it would end.

God (says he), who created all things very good, foreknew that evil would arise out of that good; and He also knew that His glorious and omnipotent goodness would be the more highly exalted by His producing good out of evil, than by His not permitting evil to be at all. He ordained the life of angels and of men, that He might first of all make it manifest by that life what free will could do, and then afterwards show what the blessing of His grace and the judgment of His justice could do.

As all future events are uncertain to us, so we hold them in suspense, as if they might incline to one side or the other. Yet in our hearts it nonetheless remains fixed that nothing will take place that the Lord has not previously foreseen.

the reason for God's keeping some for himself and rejecting others is to be sought nowhere but in God himself. When

Therefore, God's foreknowledge cannot be the reason of our election, because when God [looks into the future and] surveys all mankind, he will find them all, from the first to the last, under the same curse.

How childish is   the attempt to meet this argument by the following sophism! "We were   chosen because we were worthy, and because God foresaw that we would be   worthy." We

Unless God himself had by his election redeemed us from ruin, there would have been nothing but ruin to foresee. .

Anticipation is sometimes more exciting than actual events.

I'm cursed with the gift of foresight.

Uno sa sempre qual e' la sua decisione prima ancora di averla presa. In realta', lo sa fin dall'inizio. Ecco perche' i consigli non servono a niente.