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Quotes about Contingency

Save a boyfriend for a rainy dayand another, in case it doesn't rain.
- Mae West
THIS, therefore, is also essentially necessary and wholesome for Christians to know: That God foreknows nothing by contingency, but that He foresees, purposes, and does all things according to His immutable, eternal, and infallible will.
- Martin Luther
THIS, therefore, is also essentially necessary and wholesome for Christians to know: That God foreknows nothing by contingency, but that He foresees, purposes, and does all things according to His immutable, eternal, and infallible will. By this thunderbolt, "Free-will" is thrown prostrate, and utterly dashed to pieces.
- Martin Luther
He thought, “If Esau comes and attacks one camp, then the other camp can escape.”
- Genesis 32:8
Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
- Mae West
The new goddess contingency could not be erected until the God of heaven was utterly despoiled of his dominion over the sons of men, and in the room thereof a home-bred idol of self-sufficiency set up, and the world persuaded to worship it. But that the building climb no higher, let all men observe how the word of God overthrows this babylonian tower.
- John Owen
I know it's crazy, but I actually prefer to prepare for disaster and worst-case scenarios, rather than panic once they do occur.
- Glenn Beck
I believe that the broad sweep of the way in which prayer works in the Bible — and I'm thinking here of Jonah and the repentance of Nineveh — teaches us that God, in his sovereignty, has established a kind of contingency in the universe, and that God genuinely interacts with humans who pray in such a way that the universe changes as a result of our prayers.
- Scot McKnight
One should always look for a possible alternative, and provide against it. It is the first rule of criminal investigation.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
I always prepare for the worst.
- Alexander Volkanovski