Quotes about Predestination
God purposed redemption in Christ Jesus before the world began, and His plan does not need any editing by man.
— AW Tozer
To me, Calvinism means the placing of the eternal God at the head of all things.
— Charles Spurgeon
Long before you were conceived by your parents, you were conceived in the mind of God.
— Rick Warren
Everything that happens is determined by God.
— Muqtada al Sadr
If God did not act first, no one would be saved.
— RC Sproul
Of all the doctrines of the Bible none is so offensive to human nature as the doctrine of God's sovereignty.
— JC Ryle
Creatures are so governed by the secret counsel of God, that nothing happens but what he has knowingly and willingly decreed.
— John Calvin
Your damnation is your own election, not God's.
— Charles Spurgeon
God is not pre or post anything. He is present to everything. ... There is not predestination but destination, not predestiny but destiny. This follows from divine omniscience and eternity.
— Peter Kreeft
For the Arminian, salvation is possible for all but certain for none. In the Calvinist position, salvation is sure for God's elect.
— RC Sproul
Whatever may be said about the doctrine of election, it is written in the Word of God as with an iron pen, and there is no getting rid of it.
— Charles Spurgeon
It's a good thing God chose me before I was born, because he surely would not have afterwards.
— Charles Spurgeon