John Calvin Quotes

The first thing that we need to say is that God is grieving, too. Uh, a lot of people try to make it sound like 'well everything that happens is God's will.' That's nonsense. God allows everything, but God does not choose everything.

Regardless of the cause, none of your problems could happen without God's permission.

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.

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.

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

I believe God controls the universe. I don't believe biology works in an uncontrolled fashion.

Everything that happens is determined by God.

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.

Nothing is or can be accidental with 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.

Most Christians salute the sovereignty of God but believe in the sovereignty of man.

Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen. He either permits it to happen, or He brings it about Himself.

Everything is from God himself, both commandment and fulfillment. He alone commands; he alone fulfills.

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

God’s sovereign will is not at the whim and mercy of our person and individual responses to it.

What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the World.

The hand of the wicked can't stir one moment before God allows them to begin, and...one moment after God commands them to stop.

I believe that every particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less than God wishes

If God exists, how can we lay claim to freedom, since He is its beginning and its end?

The Bible, contrary to what people think, actually puts forth a strong case for no free will, no free will.

From our limited vantage point, our lives are marked by an endless series of contingencies. We frequently find ourselves, instead of acting as we planned, reacting to an unexpected turn of events. We make plans but are often forced to change those plans. But there are no contingencies with God. Our unexpected, forced change of plans is a part of His plan. God is never surprised; never caught off guard; never frustrated by unexpected developments. God does as He pleases and that which pleases Him is always for His glory and our good.

This great question of predestination and free will, of free moral agency and accountability, and being saved by the grace of God, and damned for the glory of God, have occupied the mind of what we call the civilized world for many centuries.

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

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.

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