Remember that God under the Law ordained a Lamb to be offered up to Him every Morning and Evening.
The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist and believed blind eternal fate I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.
Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state.
Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
Our church has been legal since late 1960s. I've been involved since 1972. I was ordained in 1975.
International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.
God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property not seize it.
God preordained for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice a part of the human race without any merit of their own to eternal salvation and another part in just punishment of their sin to eternal damnation.
I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.
In this life struggle here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure.
If I thought that any of this was pre ordained then it takes away any kind of incentive to struggle or to put up with things to reach for those impossible dreams all those dramatic things.
There is no spot of ground however arid bare or ugly that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.