Quotes About Providence

Is this happy coincidence just good luck, or an act of providence, or what? No, it is simply that we could not live on planets without such properties. Many other planets exist that are not so hospitable to life, such as Uranus, where the temperature is –371 degrees Fahrenheit, or Venus, where the rain is sulfuric acid.

Remember, remember the Fifth of November, The Gunpowder Treason and Plot, I know of no reason Why the gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot. Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t'was his intent To blow up the King and Parli'ment. Three-score barrels of powder below To prove old England's overthrow; By God's providence he was catch'd With a dark lantern and burning match. Holloa boys, holloa boys, let the bells ring. Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King!

God was God, and the why was His. Senseless to protest and rant when God didn't ask humans to help Him make decisions.

Want to make God laugh? Tell Him your plans.

The only way in which Darwin's data made sense was to suppose that species battled for survival, and that evolution came when one slight adaptation of a species proved more successful than another in the battle: a process which he named 'natural selection'. There was nothing benevolent about the providence which watched over the process. Reason was served her notice as the handmaid of Christian revelation.

But the Christian also knows that he not only cannot and dare not be anxious, but that there is no need for him to be so. Neither anxiety now work can secure his daily bread, for bread is the gift of the Father.

Much of life appears mundane at the time. Yet in God's providence every moment includes significant details arranged by His divine hand.

The end of the rope stops in the palm of God.

The Lord watches over us every moment of every day. He is there--and He cares--about every step and every breath.

God is never late and rarely early. He is always exactly right on time--His time.

I refer to them as miracles-although some may call them fortunate circumstances-because I believe there are no accidents or surprises with God.

Union Station was a perfect representative of the city. Sad, drab, dirty, and hopeless, it was the right place to enter Providence. You didn't get your hopes up.

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

I just want to thank God for everything he has done in my life.

... I discovered life sometimes has a way of giving you what you need, but not in the form you expect.

Sit and reflect on life itself and you would discover that nothing happens by chance.

God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.

God is always doing 10,000 things in your life, and you may be aware of three of them.

If He wasn't going to use that hard thing for your good, it wouldn't have happened. He had to sign off on every single thing that touches your life.

Everything in life belongs to God. Our purpose has already been mapped out.

If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things. It is we, of course, to whom things look 'little' or 'big'.

Never believe that the so-called random events of life are anything less than God's appointed order. Be ready to discover His divine designs anywhere and everywhere.

I think God runs the show. Completely. Life proves it every day: He runs the show.

In my life's chain of events nothing was accidental. Everything happened according to an inner need.