Harvey Cox Quotes

Where it all will end, knows God.

All that has ever happened or ever will happen is in the Torah.

God knew everything I would go through before I ever went through it.

Foreknowledge is a wonderful thing.

No one knows what the future holds, except the One Who holds the future!

Our actions are preordained by the Fox God's prophecy.

Future contingents cannot be certain to us, because we know them as such. They can be certain only to God whose understanding is in eternity above time. Just as a man going along a road does not see those who come after him; but the man who sees the whole road from a height sees all those who are going along the road at the same time.

The Lord is not serious. In fact, it is a little hard to know just what else He is except loving. And love has to do with humor, doesn't it? For you cannot love someone unless you put up with him, can you? And you cannot put up with someone constantly unless you can laugh at him. Isn't that true? And certainly we are rediculous little animals wallowing in the fudge bowl, and God must love us all the more because we appeal to his humor.

Similarly, knowledge of the future was incompatible with free will. What made it possible for me to exercise freedom of choice also made it impossible for me to know the future. Conversely, now that I know the future, I would never act contrary to that future, including telling others what I know: those who know the future don't talk about it. Those who've read the Book of Ages never admit to it.

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.

At first laying down, as a fact fundamental, That nothing with God can be accidental.

never's the word God listens for when he needs a laugh.

If you want to make god laugh, make a plan.

If God is the author of life, there must be a script.

If God 'foresaw' our acts, it would be very hard to understand how we could be free not to do them. But suppose god is outside and above the Time-line... You never supposed that your actions at this moment were any less free because God knows what you are doing. Well, He know your tomorrow's actions in just the same way--because He is already in tomorrow and can simply watch you. In a sense, He does not know your action till you have done it: but the moment at which you have done it is already 'NOW' for Him.

Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free.

Because this is the way things are meant to be.(Press Tilton)

Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.

There is no accident, just as there is no beginning and no end.

Allah created my tongue to speak. I don't have freedom to come , because Allah created my feet to walk. So I walk, and I speak, and I look, and I hear according to what God says.

I can't change it, That was God's plan for my life and I'm going to go with it.

Regardless of the circumstances that surrounded your arrival, you are not an accident. God planned you before you were born.

It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.

We are in the grip of some big machine grinding us along. The force of it simplifies everything. A weird calm settled over me from inside out. What is about to happen has stood in line to happen. All the roads out of that instant have been closed, one by one.