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Quotes About Providence

Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request.
~ Hannah More
God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
God's providence is on the side of clear heads.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
~ Herbert Turnbull
A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.
~ Horace
A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness. [Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum Caliginosa nocte premit deus.]
~ Horace
God is never late, but He sure is slow.
~ James N. Watkins
Creatures are so governed by the secret counsel of God, that nothing happens but what he has knowingly and willingly decreed.
~ John Calvin
For in the Third Showing when I saw that God does all that is done, I saw no sin: and then I saw that all is well. But when God showed me for sin, then said He: All SHALL be well.
~ Julian of Norwich
The act of God injures no one.
~ Juvenal
There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular one is Providence.
~ Mark Twain
It is God who creates, effects, and preserves all things through his almighty.
~ Martin Luther
God warns before he wounds.
~ Matthew Henry
Chance is a kind of god, for it preserves many things which we do not observe.
~ Menander
What makes God laugh is people who make plans.
~ Nicolas Roeg
Let us hope, I prayed, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.
~ Peter De Vries
The whole concept of providence is that God knows everything about what we do.
~ R. C. Sproul
God measures out affliction to our need.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
The only expenditure, and all its outworkings, for which God can be held to be responsible is that which He directs.
~ Amy Carmichael
But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.
~ Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeepers
Only God knows that. He is the only one who knows. He is only one who will know. And he is the only one who does know.
~ Manny Pacquiao
God does not pay at the end of every day, but in the end He pays.
~ Anne of Austria
Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained.
~ Baruch Spinoza
The finger of God never leaves identical fingerprints.
~ Bill Vaughan