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Quotes About Providence

Nothing is or can be accidental with God.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.
~ Herodotus
God doesn't make orange juice, God makes oranges.
~ Jesse Jackson
Nobody seriously believes the universe was made by God without being persuaded that He takes care of His works.
~ John Calvin
Wherefore me behoveth needs to grant that all-thing that is done, it is well-done: for our Lord God doeth all.
~ Julian of Norwich
God'll send the bill to you.
~ James Russell Lowell
The gifts of God are not to be rejected on account of the channel that brings them.
~ Francois Fenelon
The will of God prevails.
~ Abraham Lincoln
To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals.
~ Aeschylus
How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world.
~ Augustus William Hare
All that is good is ours not by right but by the sheer bounty of a gracious God
~ Brennan Manning
He gave us eyes to see them, And lips that we might tell How great is God Almighty, Who has made all things well.
~ Cecil Frances Alexander
To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
When God's finger points, God's hand will open the door.
~ Clarence Benjamin Jones
Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial difficulties.
~ Victor Hugo
In the name of God, Monsieur, let us have greater confidence in Him than we do; let us allow Him to steer our little bark; if it is useful and pleasing to Him, He will save it from shipwreck.
~ Vincent de Paul
the women are never at a loss, God provides for them, let us run.
~ Voltaire
Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
~ William Cowper
All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.
~ William Gurnall
The lord works in mysterious ways. Indeed. And a shorter way to say that is: God is a sneak.
~ Demetri Martin
Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.
~ Doris Lessing
Let us be convinced that nothing can happen to us apart from the providence of God.
~ Dorotheus of Gaza
What we look for does not come to pass; God finds a way for what none foresaw.
~ Euripides
I'll ne'er distrust my God for cloth and bread while lilies flourish and the raven 's fed.
~ Francis Quarles