“From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto His disciples, how that He must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day” (Matthew 16:21).

“O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps” (Jeremiah 10:23).

A Nineteenth-Century poet boasted: “I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.” The Twentieth Century Humanist Manifesto proclaims: “No deity will save us; we must save ourselves.” A popular song proudly asserts: “I did it my way!”

“And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables” (Exodus 32:16).

“For it is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men” (I Peter 2:15).

“Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool” (Isaiah 1:18).