Garrison Keillor Quotes

I don't think any person has any special knowledge about what God has planned for me and you any more than me and you do.

When I was about eight, I asked my mother if it was true that God knows everything about you. When she answered yes, I said, 'Then there's no hope for me, Mum.'

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

It was very much like Norman Rockwell: small town America. We walked to school or rode our bikes, stopped at the penny candy store on the way home from school, skated on the pond.

My mom grew up in Kansas, my dad in Indiana. They had boring childhoods.

Prophecy is an intercept from the mind of an all-knowing and all-seeing and all-powerful God.

God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements.

I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child.

I'm from a little village in the south of Holland where there was nothing to do but watch American movies and television - I grew up with The 'A-Team,' 'Charlie's Angels,' and 'Edward Scissorhands.'

For me, a thing must exist before I know it, but with God, it is different - he must know it before it has existence.

Everyone who believes in God at all believes that he knows what you and I are going to do tomorrow.

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.

Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained.

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.

The sanctity proceeds out of the belief... that ancient principle where God says "before you were formed in the womb I knew you," and so for the first time in my public life I sought to stand with great compassion for the sanctity of life.

Even if God exists, does He know that you do?

What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.

God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!

Long before you were conceived by your parents, you were conceived in the mind of God.

I'm not the most sophisticated person. I'm not the smartest person in the world. But, I know what makes me excited about life, from Spielberg movies to Michael Jackson music videos to cartoons on Saturday mornings, which made my childhood.

I celebrated [my 50th birthday] by throwing a big bowl on the pottery wheel, then going for a water ski at the lake on our property in the Catskills, and that night, skinny-dipping under the stars. Just being free and joyful. And that's how I [felt] about turning 50.

It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.

Only God knows You’re talking to him now.

We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don't know.

Let anyone laugh and taunt if he so wishes. I am not keeping silent, nor am I hiding the signs and wonders that were shown to me by the Lord many years before they happened, who knew everything, even before the beginning of time.