Quotes about Occurrence

If we have been given the vocation and grace to die with Christ then the everyday and banal occurrence which we call human death has been elevated to a place among God's mysteries.

What is to be will be, and what isn't to be happens sometimes.

And When is not what matters. It's what happens in the When that matters. Are you ready to go?

“Tell us, when will these things happen? And what will be the sign that they are about to be fulfilled?”

Nothing touches our lives but it is God Himself speaking. Do we discern His hand or only mere occurrence?

What is to be, will be, said Mrs. Rachel gloomily, and what isn't to be happens sometimes.

Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. When you choose to love, you choose to work miracles.

Truth happens to an idea.

And the tribes of Israel sent men throughout the tribe of Benjamin, saying, “What is this wickedness that has occurred among you?

This is the foundation of the distinction between the scientia necessaria and the scientia libera. God knows Himself by the necessity of his nature; but as everything out of Himself depends for its existence or occurrence upon his will, his knowledge of each thing as an actual occurrence is suspended on his will, and in that sense is free. Creation not being necessary, it depended on the will of God whether the universe as an object of knowledge should exist or not.

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

Were it in anywise possible for something to occur apart from either the direct agency or permission of God, then that something would be independent of Him, and He would at once cease to be Supreme.