God’s infinite wisdom may be seen in His plan. In our minds, a plan is necessary to any sort of decree, human or divine. The Bible plainly shows us that God works according to a plan. We can describe His plan in this way: it is His eternal deliberation with Himself, concerning the best way to accomplish His own purposes.
— Samuel Willard (1640–1707), Puritanischer Prediger
Topics: Guidance & God's Will, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Wisdom & Understanding
Samuel Willard
Samuel Willard (1640–1707) war ein puritanischer Geistlicher in Neuengland, Pfarrer an der Old South Church in Boston und amtierender Leiter des Harvard College. Bekanntheit erlangte er durch sein postum veröffentlichtes Monumentalwerk *A Compleat Body of Divinity* sowie durch seine Kritik an den Hexenprozessen von Salem, bei denen er gegen die Zulassung sogenannter Geisterbeweise auftrat. Heutigen Bibellesern vermittelt sein Werk eine systematische Auslegung der reformierten Bundestheologie und zeigt das Ringen um Besonnenheit in Zeiten religiöser Spannungen.
All quotes by Samuel Willard (8)
Blaise Pascal
You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do.
Craig Groeschel
God loves to use people whom others believe are unqualified.
Craig Groeschel
The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.
Frederick Buechner
John Henry Newman
Chance is the pseudonym God chooses when he wants to remain incognito.
Albert Schweitzer
What was not in my plan lay in God's plan.
Edith Stein
Outside the will of God, There's nothing I want. Inside the will of God there's nothing I fear.
A.W. Tozer