Thornton Wilder Quotes

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

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

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.

Man appoints, and God disappoints.

Everything that happens is determined by God.

Man plans, but God decides.

It's in God's hands when we come on this earth and when we leave.

It is for us to make the effort. The result is always in God's hands.

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.

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

Man Proposeth, God disposeth.

What happened was no accident. Everything was preordained. True, the will was free, but heaven also made its ordinances.

God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose.

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.

All things are ordered by God, but His providence takes in our free agency, as well as His own sovereignty.

God never does anything accidentally.

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

What men call accident is God's own part.

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.

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

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

I believe everything happens under God's plan anyway.

Obviously, we're all going to die at some point. Whether or not we are fated to die in some way I think is debatable. I just don't know which side to debate.