59 Foreknowledge Quotes
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Famous Foreknowledge Quotes
Foreknowledge is power. — Auguste Comte
Everything is foreseen, yet freedom of choice is granted. — Rabbi Akiva
Election is an act of God before creation in which He chooses some people to be saved, not on account of any foreseen merit in them, but only because of His sovereign good pleasure. — Wayne Grudem
What enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge. — Sun Tzu
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. — Norman Cousins
Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being. — Marcus Aurelius
For everything that happens to a Christian, God is aware. — T. B. Joshua
Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past. — Thomas Hobbes
A danger foreseen is half-avoided. — American Indian Proverbs
After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork. — James Prescott Joule
God knew what we were before conversion - wicked, guilty, and defiled; yet He loved us. He knows what we will be after conversion - weak, erring, and frail; yet He loves us. — J. C. Ryle
I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints; our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man's portion of joy and sorrow is predetermined. — Seneca
Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight. It is not willingness to know, but willingness to DO (obey) God's will that brings certainty. — Eric Liddell
To know something like the Lord’s Prayer. — Romanian Proverbs
Hindsight is the best insight to foresight — Irish Proverbs
Foretold Quotes
But if so great a power is shown to have followed and to be still following the dispensation of His suffering, how great shall that be which shall follow His glorious advent! For He shall come on the clouds as the Son of man, so Daniel foretold, and His angels shall come with Him. — Justin Martyr
I live to hail that season by gifted one foretold, when men shall live by reason, and not alone by gold. — George Linnaeus Banks
The expedition had now performed its functions. I saw that old father Nile without any doubt rises in the Victoria Nyanza, and as I had foretold, that lake is the great source of the holy river which cradled the first expounder of our religious belief. — John Hanning Speke
Say, what is life? 'Tis to be born, A helpless Babe, to greet the light With a sharp wail, as if the morn Foretold a cloudy noon and night; To weep, to sleep, and weep again, With sunny smiles between; and then? — John Godfrey Saxe
The disaster in the Gulf was no accident. It was the result of years of oil money buying off politicians to lead to an unregulated and ill focused addiction to oil and drilling. The doomed fate of the local fisherman and the environment were foretold in the infamous chants of 'Drill, Baby, Drill. — Robert Greenwald
Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions? — Hippocrates
Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up. — Vladimir Lenin
Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold. — Garet Garrett
An Armageddon is approaching at the beginning of the third millennium. But it is not the cosmic war and fiery collapse of mankind foretold in sacred scripture. It is the wreckage of the planet by an exuberantly plentiful and ingenious humanity. — E. O. Wilson
My whole life was foretold to me. An old Romany gypsy read my fortune. — Maureen O'Hara
Foresight Quotes
Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom. — Ian Lowe
What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully. — Victor Cherbuliez
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in — Greek Proverbs
When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream. — John Lennon
May you have the hindsight to know where you’ve been, the foresight to know where you are going, and the insight to know when you have gone too far. — Irish Proverbs
To divide the skin while it’s still on the bear. — Polish Proverbs
If you want to know the end, look at the beginning. — African Proverbs
Hindsight is better than foresight. — American Proverbs
Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you're on the journey. But you've got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end. — Usher
Thirsty men make good prophets. — Bulgarian Proverbs
People Writing About Foreknowledge
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
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 Auguste Comte |
33 | 710 |
 Rabbi Akiva |
12 | 348 |
 Wayne Grudem |
25 | 178 |
 Sun Tzu |
454 | 6304 |
 Norman Cousins |
144 | 1430 |
 Marcus Aurelius |
770 | 19093 |
More Foreknowledge Quotes
People think that talking is a sign of thinking. It isn't, for the most part' on the contrary, it's a mechanical dodge of the body to relieve oneself of the strain of thinking, just as exercising the muscles helps the body to become temporarily unconscious of its weight, its pain, its weariness, and the foreknowledge of its doom. — Aleister Crowley
Nature has a language of its own, or maybe those who have lived long in solitude read in it their own unconscious inner feelings and mysterious foreknowledge. — Alexandra David-Neel
The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest. — Steven Brust
The God of Israel is King of kings and Lord of lords... He know, and foreknows, all things, and his foreknowledge is foreordination; he, therefore, will have the last word, both in world history and in the destiny of every man; his kingdom and righteousness will triumph in the end, for neither men nor angels shall be able to thwart him. — J. I. Packer
Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge. — Sun Tzu
Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters. — Raymond Aron
Either the future is subject to chance--in which case nobody, not even a god, can affect it one way or the other--or it is predestined, in which case foreknowledge cannot avert it. — Quintus Tullius Cicero
In depression...faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no rememdy will come, not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute. It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul. — William Styron
So long as knowledge goes beyond mere true belief, foreknowledge is implausible, since having and relying on relevant true beliefs is sufficient for inquiry. A stepping-stone version of prior true belief seems reasonable, though perhaps we should accept only an even weaker view: a stepping-stone version of roughly-accurate beliefs. — Gail Fine
We certainly have to have a view about knowledge in order to decide whether some version of foreknowledge is necessary for inquiry or whether some philosopher or other thinks it is. Roughly, the more demanding our conception of knowledge is, the less plausible foreknowledge is; the weaker our conception of knowledge is, the more plausible foreknowledge is. — Gail Fine
This Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men. — Saint Peter
Many other means there be, that promise the foreknowledge of things to come: besides the raising up and conjuring of ghosts departed, the conference also with familiars and spirits infernal. And all these were found out in our days, to be no better than vanities and false illusions. — Pliny The Elder
I suppose that the great questions of "Fate, Freewill, Foreknowledge Absolute," which used to be discussed at Concord, are still unsettled. — Henry David Thoreau
There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works. — Gottfried Leibniz
Faith is, necessary to explain anything, and to reconcile the foreknowledge of God with human evil. — William Wordsworth
An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought. — Jack Vance
The "second sight" possessed by the Highlanders in Scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future events. I believe they possess this gift because they don't wear trousers. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
In discourse more sweet; For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense. Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute; And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost. — John Milton
God decreed to save and damn certain particular persons. This decree has its foundation in the foreknowledge of God, by which he knew from all eternity those individuals who would, through his preventing [going before] grace, believe, and, through his subsequent grace would persevere by which foreknowledge, he likewise knew those who would not believe and persevere. — Jacobus Arminius
Now this foreknowledge cannot be elicited from spirits; it cannot be obtained inductively from experience, nor by any deductive calculation. — Sun Tzu
And I saw that truly nothing happens by accident or luck, but everything by God's wise providence. If it seems to be accident or luck from our point of view, our blindness and lack of foreknowledge is the cause; for matters that have been in God's foreseeing wisdom since before time began befall us suddenly, all unawares; and so in our blindness and ignorance we say that this is accident or luck, but to our Lord God it is not so. — Julian of Norwich
Immortality,' said Crake, ' is a concept. If you take 'mortality' as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then 'immortality' is the absence of such fear. Babies are immortal. Edit out the fear, and you'll be. — Margaret Atwood
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