Quotes About Providence

Management [ Providence ], knowledge, and intention are not the same when ascribed to us and when ascribed to God.

I don't believe in the end that God gave me cancer, but He certainly could have stopped it and didn't.

I learned very early that people need to have a good grasp of God's goodness and God's sovereignty.

In all God's providences, it is good to compare His word and His works together; for we shall find a beautiful harmony between them, and that they mutually illustrate each other.

It is unlikely that God's plan for the universe includes making you rich.

God sends the cold according to the coat.

Never place a comma where God has placed a period. God has spoken!

God's decisions are always mysterious, but they are always in our favour.

Fulfill thy fate! Be-do-bear-and thank God.

God uses everything for good in our lives.

Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases, which he does not choose to acknowledge openly with his own sign manual.

God often lays the sum of His amazing providences in very dismal afflictions; as the limner first puts on the dusky colors, on which he intends to draw the portraiture of some illustrious beauty.

Despite the obvious qualifications of all of Jesse's other sons, God appoints the unlikely David to become the king of Israel.

The Lord stands above the new day, for God has made it. All restlessness, all worry, and anxiety flee before him.

But He Himself hath sealed your sufferings, and their thus saying condemns God, and His sealing condemns them.

It is predictable that God will take care of us. What's unpredictable is how he will do it.

The only thing that's in my control is to win ballgames and God is always taking care of me.

I want it all quickly 'cause I don't want God to stop and think and wonder if I'm getting more than my share.

When God wounds from on high he will follow with the remedy.

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.

God does everything perfectly. The world doesn't really need saving; it's exactly the way God wants it to be at the moment.

That friend, given to you by circumstances over which you have not control, was God's own gift.

To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by measure.

God sends cold according to clothes.