Quotes about Predestined

Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name.

Once more Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Ah, who can live unless God has ordained it?

Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it?

In Him we were also chosen as God’s own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything by the counsel of His will,

Conway would give me no rest until I fought him. I felt it was ordained ages before our birth that we should meet on this planet and fight.

God has predestined every single one of us for fruitfulness. (See John 15.) We need to be familiar with a place of divine intimacy in which we are so consumed by the Holy Spirit that we will nurture and protect the seed He places in us. We need to fearlessly step out and activate His promises. It is intimacy that gives us the grace and strength we need to push through suffering, pain, and inconvenience.

The minister gave out his text and droned along monotonously through an argument that was so prosy that many a head by and by began to nod — and yet it was an argument that dealt in limitless fire and brimstone and thinned the predestined elect down to a company so small as to be hardly worth the saving.

Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.

Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name.

We did not happen to be--we were chosen by God to exist.