Quotes about Predestination

to repudiate the election of God is to repudiate the God of election.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

Major Major's father had a Calvinist's faith in predestination and could perceive distinctly how everyone's misfortunes but his own were expressions of God's will.

God decided to love us before we even arrived on planet earth. The only thing that stands between us and God's love is our being willing to believe Him and receive it.

John 6:44 looks at the matter from the Godward side and declares, quite rightly, that no one ever made the first move toward God. We come to God only because God draws us. On the other hand, as the texts about the open door show, God does not show favoritism. Anyone, regardless of who he or she is or where he or she comes from, may be among that number.

Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and the decrees of God.

Some of the Fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination, as a thing divine, and reserved for the felicities of heaven itself.

Let that ethical philosophy therefore of free-will be far from a Christian mind.

God works in his elect in two ways: inwardly, by his Spirit; outwardly, by his Word.

To get rid of predestination we have been willing to degrade our God into a godling.

How do we know that God has elected us before the creation of the world? By believing in Jesus Christ.

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.