Quotes About Providence

Beneath our questions about God's generosity and his care for our needs is something darker. What we really care about is our wants.

She said the lottery was like love. Providence was not with her, but she was patient.

God calls you alike by Scripture, by your reason, by your conscience, by the events of His providence, by heavenly influences to consecrate all you have to His service and the good of man; Heaven appeals to you, and the world appeals to you, not to live in vain.

Edward Jenner's discovery of vaccination drew harsh criticism from the pulpit. Clergymen denounced the doctor for having put himself above God. Only the Almighty, they said, sends illness and only the Almighty cures it. Vaccination, critics charged, was "a diabolical operation," and its inventor was "flying in the face of Providence

I am writing this as a profession of faith: I believe in a divine providence; I also believe in God's wisdom and goodness; I trust in his ways, even though they may seem matters of chance. It is not the mighty of the earth who determine the course of history. They think they are the movers, and they are moved.

Their point of departure is different and their paths diverse; nevertheless, each seems called by some secret design of Providence one day to hold in its hands the destinies of half the world. (on Russia and America)

Time alone will tell the future, but fate shall always have her way.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

Whatever is, is right.

Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy Opinion against Providence; Call Imperfection what thou fancy'st such, Say, here he gives too little, there too much; Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust,(9) Yet cry, If Man's unhappy, God's unjust; If Man alone ingross not Heav'n's high care, Alone made perfect here, immortal there: Snatch from his hand the balance(10) and the rod, Re-judge his justice, be the GOD of GOD!

Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurled, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.

We may see the small Value God has for Riches, by the People he gives them to." [ Thoughts on Various Subjects , 1727]

The American's principal means of action is liberty; the Russian's, servitude.Their points of departure are different, their ways diverse. Yet each seems called by a secret design of Providence some day to sway the destinies of half the globe.

There is a special Providence that watches over idiots, drunken men, and boys.

Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below, then you will discover the wisdom of the Creator, in that He gave it a neck longer than its feet for this reason, that it might, as if lowering a sort of fishing line, procure the food hidden in the deep water.

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

He who placed me in this seat will keep me here.

There aren't any coincidences. I think things really happen for a reason.

Numerous have been the manifestations of God's providence in sustaining us. In the gloomy period of adversity, we have had 'our cloud by day and pillar of fire by night.' We have been reduced to distress, and the arm of Omnipotence has raised us up.

Accident is as much a part of fiction as anything else, symbolic of the grace that, along with will, conspires to put words on the page.

His (Guénon's) motto was vincit omnia veritas, "Truth conquers all", but implicitly his motto was "Seek and ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you". Implicit in his writings is the certainty that they will come providentially to those who are qualified to receive his message and they will impel them to seek and therefore to find a way.

The same moon is still up there. The same stars that Abraham saw... And I know that the same God who put them there and made them shine, He's still there too... And I know that God does not lie. ...We don't need to judge God's way of doing stuff. It gets done.

Always it refers to God's favor and care for those he chooses to be "with." It makes all the difference to their lives.