Quotes About Providence

week with that blessed thought directly or indirectly: "I am in God's charge. My God is working out my life for me.

Never forget that everything you have, even the breath in your body, comes from the Almighty One, so be grateful for all you are given.

You couldn't count on Providence for anything ever.

our endowment from God.

me that the gods had given me everything

The first collection which he published, intituled PAMELA, exhibited the beauty and superiority of virtue in an innocent and unpolished mind, with the reward which often, even in this life, a protecting Providence bestows on goodness. A young woman of low degree, relating to her honest parents the severe trials she met with from a master who ought to have been the protector, not the assailer of her honour, shews the character of a libertine in its truly contemptible light.

O the unparalleled wickedness, stratagems, and devices, of those who call themselves gentlemen, yet pervert the design of Providence, in giving them ample means to do good, to their own everlasting perdition, and the ruin of poor oppressed innocence!

GOD works in mysterious ways

I had learned that every circumstance in life doesn't have to end happily for the Lord to provide a happy ending.

The way I see it is that some things are just meant to be the way they are.

Yasy?ham anug?h??mi hari?ye tad-dhana? ?anai?: "I gradually take away all the wealth of those upon whom I am merciful.

There is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself that Providence moves, too. Whatever you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would have never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings, and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.

Wen die Götter lieben, den führen sie zu der Stelle, wo man seiner bedarf.

God arranges everything for us, so that we need have no more fear or trouble and may be quite sure that all things will come right in the end.

Among innumerable footsteps of divine providence to be found in the works of nature, there is a very remarkable one to be observed in the exact balance that is maintained, between the numbers of men and women; for by this means is provided, that the species never may fail, nor perish, since every male may have its female, and of proportionable age. This equality of males and females is not the effect of chance but divine providence, working for a good end.

There is a Divine Providence operating over and above the materialistic happenings of biological evolution.

Christ, on the other hand, declares that every single one of God's creatures is under his hand and care, and that nothing happens by chance. In

if we have Jesus Christ with us, we shall come upon nothing so accursed that he will not turn it into a blessing; nothing

whenever the Lord holds us in suspense, and   delays his aid, he is not therefore asleep, but, on the contrary,   regulates all His works in such a manner that he does nothing but at   the proper time.

We ought to contemplate providence not as curious and fickle persons are wont to do but as a ground of confidence and excitement to prayer. When he informs us that the hairs of our head are all numbered it is not to encourage trivial speculations but to instruct us to depend on the fatherly care of God which is exercised over these frail bodies.

This being admitted, it is certain that not a drop of rain falls without the express command of God.

for Nazareth was ordained to be Christ's home, so that he might bear the name of Nazarene which was rightly his.

whenever God is pleased to make way for his providence, he even in external matters so turns and bends the wills of men, that whatever the freedom of their choice may be, it is still subject to the disposal of God.