Quotes About Providence

Not our outstretched beggars' hands, but rather that with which God fills them is what matters; and that means precisely not us and our actions, but rather first of all God and God's actions.

God sits on high and he sees far.

God's will determines all the choices and circumstances of his creatures, so that nothing is up to man's "free will." In fact, because God is completely sovereign, man has no free will:

A man's steps are directed by the LORD. How then can anyone understand his own way? (Proverbs 20:24)

The LORD works out everything for his own ends – even the wicked for a day of disaster. (Proverbs 16:4)

The Sovereign God causes all things, and he is good and righteous in all that he does. Blessed be the name of the Lord." No objection can touch this.

God is sovereign, man is not free – and there is no problem. This is biblical, coherent, simple, and defensible.

The LORD said to him, "Who gave man his mouth? Who makes him deaf or mute? Who gives him sight or makes him blind? Is it not I, the LORD?" (Exodus 4:11)

Who can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it? Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and good things come? (Lamentations 3:37-38)

Where was God when it happened? He was there making it happen, for the glory of his name and the good of his elect. And if he was not there, it could never have happened.

God creates, sustains, and controls all things.

The ignorant rely on Providence they look to the stars for help instead of relying on themselves. Some artificiality creeps in: the hero is always the hero, the villain almost always acts villainously; there are few intermediate shades.

The love of God for man is so great that it cannot constrain; for there is no love without respect. Divine will always will submit itself to gropings, to detours, even to revolts of human will to bring it to a free consent: of such is divine providence, and the classical image of the pedagogue must seem feeble indeed to anyone who has felt God as a beggar of love waiting at the soul's door without ever daring to force it.

Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.

Here is my creed: I believe in one God, the Creator of the universe. That he governs it by his providence. That he ought to be worshipped. That the most acceptable service we render to him is in doing good to his other children. That the soul of man is immortal, and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this. These I take to be the fundamental points in all sound religion. --Benjamin Franklin

we may patiently pass through this life in afflictions, hunger, cold, contempt, reproaches, and other disagreeable circumstances, contented with this single assurance, that our King will never desert us, but will give what we need, until having finished our warfare, we shall be called to the triumph.

Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.

Chance is a nickname for Providence.

There is no doubt such a thing as chance, but I see no reason why Providence should not make use of it.

Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.

Someone described Providence as the baptismal name of chance; no doubt some pious person will retort that chance is the nickname of Providence.

There's no such thing as chance, it's all preordained.Lik e KISMET.

... plunged into chance, --that is to say, swallowed up in Providence

Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand.