Quotes about Predestination

He so directs and controls all events and all actions of His creatures that they never act outside of His sovereign will.

There it is . . . Our God declares the end in the beginning. In Christ, God loved us before we loved him, caught us before we fell, forgave us before we asked, clothed us in righteousness before we realized we were naked, and cleansed us before we were aware of our filth. God called those who were enemies, aliens, and strangers his very own children and friends. And wrote the story of our life before we drew our first breath.

Because every day of your life was written on God's calendar before you were born, everything that happens to you has spiritual significance.

All that will ever be has already been written long before it happens. There is nothing we can do to stop it.

God is able to see beforehand all that happens in our lives and in the world, and He is able to establish a plan of how it can be used for His purpose and His glory. We are assured, "All the nations You have made will come and bow down before You, Lord, and will honor Your name" (Ps. 86:9).

For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so nothing is taught but what is expedient to know. Therefore we must guard against depriving believers of anything disclosed about predestination in Scripture, lest we seem either wickedly to defraud them of the blessing of their God or to accuse and scoff at the Holy Spirit for having published what it is in any way profitable to suppress.

It seems harsh to many to think that God chooses some and rejects others, and does not consider men's worth, that by his own free will he chooses whom he pleases and moreover rejects others. But what is this scruple except a desire to call God to order and subject him to their judgment?

Not that they may believe against their wills (which would be impossible), but that they may be made willing to believe who were before unwilling to believe.

Therefore, as Paul testifies, election, which is the cause of good works, does not depend upon men.

But Jacob was divinely chosen and his brother, the first-born, was rejected.

Whenever God is pleased to make way for his providence, he even in external matters so turns and bends the wills of men, that whatever the freedom of their choice may be, it is still subject to the disposal of God.