Els Borst Quotes

Luck really has nothing to do with human existence, since God is not a random God.

Either I am just what God intended me for, or God cannot 'carry out' His intentions, it would seem.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

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.

I believe everything happens under God's plan anyway.

Everything happens within God's perfect plan.

God does not play dice.

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

What men call accident is God's own part.

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

I do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent.

The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.

God uses whoever he wants.

The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.

Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

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

Next to the acknowledgement of the existence of a Deity, there is no one principle of greater importance in religion, than a realizing belief of the divine government and superintending the affairs of the universe, providence, and intimately concerned in whatever happens to mankind, both as nations and kingdoms, and as individuals.

Whatever happens, happens. It's all a part of God's plan.

Nothing is or can be accidental with God.

The will of God is exactly what we would do if we knew all the facts.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

If there is a God, his plan is very similar to someone not having a plan.

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

The will of the world is never the will of God.