Quotes About Providence

Don't plan with what is in your pocket; plan with what is in God's pocket

God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America.

Many are the plans in a mans heart, but it is the Lords purpose that prevails. -Proverbs 19:21

Women are strange and incomprehensible, a device invented by Providence to keep the wit of man well sharpened by constant employment

Women have no wilderness in them. They are provident instead content in the tight hot cell of their hearts. To eat dusty bread.

Life is a winding road with unknown perils and troubles, but we can be certain of God's providence, security, and care.

Each meeting occurs at the precise moment for which it was meant. Usually, when it will have the greatest impact on our lives.

I often took him as one of God's little jokes on me. When I was in desperate trouble, what saved me from a fate worse than death? To what do I owe my life? Was it love, affection, understanding, friends, wisdom? No no no. It was a man who looks like a poor copy of Walt Disney, drives pink Cadillacs, wears baby-blue alligator shoes, and appears to have the emotional depth of a slightly retarded potato.

What the godless must call coincidence, a Christian is invited to call God-incidence.

God is both willing and able to help. He gives health, happiness, and salvation. You can depend on this.

He is a God to us and dispenses everything bountifully also when everything is most hopeless.

In the same way, people who sleep when they should be working are testing God. Because God promised to take care of them, they assume that God will find a way. But in Proverbs, God told them to work: "Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth" (Proverbs 10:4).

God wants to give us more than we ask for, not just fulfill our weak prayers. Joseph

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.

What's for you, won't pass you.

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign

Always remember to thank God for what he has given you that you didn't ask for!

God works in mysterious ways, he thought with a sign.

You do not yet understand the God who works in mysterious ways. He decides when it is over.

Do not look forward to what may happen to-morrow; the same everlasting Father who cares for you to-day, will take care of you to-morrow, and every day. Either he will shield you from suffering, or He will give you unfailing strength to bear it. Be at peace then, and put aside all anxious thoughts and imaginations. ST. FRANCIS DE SALES.

One question I have about this theory (*Darwin) is: What basis was used to determine which species are higher or lower, and which are strong or weak? To decide that the phenomenon of the survival of the fittest is the providence of nature and that people are the highest, most evolved species seems to reflect more the strongman logic of human beings than the true state of nature. No one can say which species is the strongest because all living things depend on one another to survive (...)

Chance is providence in a cloak.

Providence turns the wheels of destiny.