Quotes about Predestination

Whatever happens to you has been waiting to happen since the beginning of time.

Whatever may befall you, it was preordained for you from everlasting.

It was ordained at the beginning of the world that certain signs should prefigure certain events.

THIS, therefore, is also essentially necessary and wholesome for Christians to know: That God foreknows nothing by contingency, but that He foresees, purposes, and does all things according to His immutable, eternal, and infallible will. By this thunderbolt, "Free-will" is thrown prostrate, and utterly dashed to pieces.

Proverbs 19:21 is a foundational Scripture in regard to understanding God's purpose: "Many are the plans in a man's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails.

The things that happen do not happen by chance—they happen entirely by the decree of God. God is sovereignly working out His own purposes.

It didn't begin just before you were born. It began before the world was born. He placed his grace on you and wrote your story in such a way that at a certain point in time you would hear the truths of the gospel of Jesus Christ and believe. His love for you is never a result of your character; it is a clear demonstration of his. He granted you and me what we never could have deserved; our new life is his choice, his gift.

It is vital to remember, when trouble comes your way and discouragement begins to grip your heart, that every single day of your life was written into God's book before you lived the very first of them. None of those days and none of the things that you have faced or will face in those days are a surprise to your Lord.

You obey not to get God's attention, but because you have been the object of his attention since before the world began.

Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be.

The LORD has made everything for His purpose—even the wicked for the day of disaster.

What exists has already been, and what will be has already been, for God will call to account what has passed.