Quotes About Providence

If our rest was here, most of God's providences must be useless. Should God lose the glory of his church's miraculous deliverances, and of the fall of his enemies, that men may have their happiness here?

There will be times when you do not comprehend why He allows certain things to occur, and that is to be expected.

But of course everything had conspired to spoil her entrance, which only went to prove what Janine already knew: that no matter how well you planned something, God always planned better. If He was feeling stingy that day and didn't want you to have some little thing you had your heart set on, then you weren't going to get it and that was all there was to it.

God never does anything accidentally...

God does not play dice. ALBERT EINSTEIN

Gratitude asks, "Why me? Why do I get all that I have?

Because God is sovereignly in control, accidents are just incidents in God's good plan for you.

It is God who directs the lives of his creatures; everyone's life is in his power.

Que Dios nos libre de los hombres con un destino dictado por la voluntad divina

He might have to go hungry tonight, but he could put up with that, grateful that today God had asked him to sacrifice his dinner but not his life.

Thus, he says, those who would "eliminate from the universe" what they think of as "inferior beings" would simply "eliminate Providence itself," whose nature it is to "produce all things and to diversify all in the manner of their existence.

If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, God speed her! She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of the great purposes of Providence for the advantage of mankind.

A superintending power to maintain the Universe in its course and order.

Where God guides, He provides. No matter how things look, God is still in control. Stay in peace and be hopeful. Your blessing is coming soon.

Providence so orders the case, that faith and prayer come between our wants and supplies, and the goodness of God may be the more magnified in our eyes thereby.

God will only give you what you would have asked for if you knew everything he knows

I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see, if I had had my own way, would have led to extensive mischief.

When the opposite of your prayer occurs, your prayer hasn't been ignored; it's been considered & refused for your ultimate good.

Answered prayers cover the field of providential history as flowers cover western prairies.

What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.

What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.[Lincoln's maxim and philosophy]

Prayer honors God acknowledges His being exalts His power adores His providence secures His aid.

O Lord you know what is best for me. Let this or that be done as you please. Give what you will how much you will and when you will.

God gives every bird its food but he does not throw it into the nest.