Tryon Edwards Quotes

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

Everything that happens is determined by God.

God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid.

They babble and talk absurdly who, in the place of God's providence, substitute bare permission - as if God sat in a watchtower awaiting chance events , and his judgments thus depended upon human will.

God is never at a loss because He cannot find someone to cooperate with Him in carrying out His plan. He so moves in the hearts of people - either Christians or non Christians, it makes no difference - that they willingly, of their own free will carry out His plans.

The whole concept of providence is that God knows everything about what we do.

Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.

What men call accident is God's own part.

There has been a most Providential Guidance which the want of prudence, vigilance, or judgement has not impeded, and it is here that we can most clearly see the designs of God.

Man appoints, and God disappoints.

Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our 'accepting' and 'willing' are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God.

Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines.

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.

Without doubt, God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it.

Destiny is not designed by mere mortals like us. It is crafted by God.

God is the ruler of history. His times are well chosen The Roman Empire was an instrument in his hand. And so are the nations of the modern world.

Nothing with God can be accidental.

There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.

Nothing is or can be accidental with God.

To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.

In Reformed theology, if God is not sovereign over the entire created order, then he is not sovereign at all. The term sovereignty too easily becomes a chimera. If God is not sovereign, then he is not God.

Without doubt, God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. God directs angels, men, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature: and man having been created free, he is led freely.

Providence is wiser than you, and you may be confident it has suited all things better to your eternal good than you could do had you been left to your own option.