Quotes About Providence

I believe God's guidance is detailed, daily, personal, unfailing, and preplanned, as Psalm 139:16 says: "All my days were written in Your book and planned before a single one of them began." If He has planned all my days, I should acknowledge Him in all my ways.

The Lord will make a way for you where no foot has been before. That which, like a sea, threatens to drown you, shall be a highway for your escape. —CHARLES H. SPURGEON

We know that all things work together for good to those who love God. – Romans 8:28

Do not fear therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows. – Matthew 10:31

The billions of flowers blooming around the globe are preachers with a single message: "Don't worry! God cares for our needs.

THERE WAS NOTHING INEVITABLE about this turn of events. No divine providence or progressive teleology, no unfolding Hegelian dialectic required that liberalism triumph after World War II.

I think a lot of what keeps the world going is the result of accidents—happy or. otherwise—and taking advantage of these.

If you want to make God laugh, then tell him your plans!

It used to be a great joke, particularly among the girls in Providence, and they used to laugh a good deal about being treated to a soda by John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

He can even use the bad things of life to bring about his ultimate purposes and ends. "That doesn't mean those things aren't bad—they really are bad. But they're all within the sovereignty of God. Even good can come out of evil.

The sweetest things in life were not necessarily what one strove for and grabbed. Instead, many many times the All-Merciful, the All-Generous would give His servants without being petitioned, without waiting to be asked.

Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take; The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head. Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour; The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower. Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain. God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.

The Puritan divine Richard Steele wrote, God doth call every man and woman…to serve him in some peculiar employment in this world, both for their own and the common good.…The Great Governor of the world hath appointed to every man his proper post and province.

Providence," said Hitler to Rauschning, has ordained that I should be the greatest liberator of humanity. I am freeing men from the restraints of an intelligence that has taken charge; from the dirty and degrading self-mortifications of a chimera called conscience and morality, and from the demands of a freedom and personal independence which only a very few can bear.45

Primitive man's life in Hobbes' famous words, was short, brutish, and nasty; and this very savagery and anxiety became the justification for an absolute order established, like Descartes' ideal world, by a single providential mind and will: that of the absolute ruler or monarch. Until men were incorporated into Leviathan, that is, the all-powerful state through which the king's will was carried out, they were dangerous to their fellows and a burden to themselves.

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.

The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men.

There is a sort of economy in Providence that one shall excel where another is defective, in order to make men more useful to each other, and mix them in society.

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

Because every day of your life was written on God's calendar before you were born, everything that happens to you has spiritual significance.

Every flower of the field, every fiber of a plant, every particle of an insect carries with it the impress of its Maker and can-if duly considered-read us lectures of ethics or divinity.

What You Get Is What You Got Because Only One Who Gives You That And That Is God.

Do not worry about your needs. God knows your every need.

This is the God of Providence who protects, disposes, rewards, and punishes, the God who, according to the width of the believer's outlook, loves and cherishes the life of the tribe or of the human race, or even life as such, the comforter in sorrow and unsatisfied longing, who preserves the souls of the dead. This is the social or moral conception of God.