Quotes About Providence

God has not forsaken me, and He never will.

If you want to know how God feels about money, look at who she gives it to

God makes a way out of no way.

seems to me the most beautiful thing on earth, perhaps because it is unearthly, and the touch of God in us: the miracle of mercy, the unexpected, the arms of the prodigal son's father, the ravens bringing food in the night, the cup running over.

Theirs is the mystery of continuous creation and all that providence implies: the uncertainty of vision, the horror of the fixed, the dissolution of the present, the intricacy of beauty, the pressure of fecundity, the elusiveness of the free, and the flawed nature of perfection.

It's better to have a malign providence than an indifferent one.

We defy augury. There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come—the readiness is all. Since no man, of aught he leaves, knows what is't to leave betimes, let be. (Hamlet 5.2.217-224)

Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:5–6 NIV

it would be a kind boon in an overruling Providence to sweep from the earth the soil, along with the people. Better to be a wilderness of waste, than a lasting monument of lost liberty.

But God has a way of making things even out, I guess.

Life just happens the way it's supposed to happen. It delivers you to where it delivers you.

Sometimes the best part in life is an accident that goes right.

I have lived, And seen God's hand thro a life time, And all was for the best.

Why isn't life better designed so it warns you when terrible things are about to happen?

Too much is made for us; too much is given to us - even those of us who are underprivileged. The poverty is given to us. The difficulties are given to us.

For our lives are in the Lord's hands; and they can do nothing unto us before God suffer them. Therefore give all thanks to God.

as I had only once to die, I was content to leave the time and place and means in the hand of God

here's what I believe - sometimes God has a Plan B...

It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.

God has created all things for good; all things for their greatest good; everything for its own good. What is the good of one is not the good of another; what makes one man happy would make another unhappy. God has determined, unless I interfere with His plan, that I should reach that which will be my greatest happiness. He looks on me individually, He calls me by my name, He knows what I can do, what I can best be, what is my greatest happiness, and He means to give it me.

Providence has delivered me of every worldly passion, save this one; the desire to acquire books, new or old books of any kind, whose charms I cannot persuade myself to resist.

Faith in God's promise and power will bring a man to submit to the sorest and most trying dispensations of His providence. Or to put it another way: Faith, where it is in exercise, will teach the Christian to say of all God does, "It is well.

Our manifest destiny is to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.

Lo mismo se puede decir de la providencia. ¿Cómo Dios controla el clima y las estaciones? Los controla al hablar, por medio de Su palabra: