John Calvin Quotes

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

The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.

Creatures are so governed by the secret counsel of God, that nothing happens but what he has knowingly and willingly decreed.

In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature.

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

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

Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.

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

I believe everything happens under God's plan anyway.

The future belongs to God.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

God uses whoever he wants.

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

Everything that happens is determined by God.

If everything is God's will, then so is the invention of the vaccine, just like the seatbelt.

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

I believe firmly in God's control in life.

God will finish what He authors, but He is not obligated to finish what He has not authored.