Quotes About Providence

A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles.

The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.

All wise men, to decline the envy of their own virtues, use to ascribe them to Providence and Fortune; for so they may the better assume them: and, besides, it is greatness in a man, to be the care of the higher powers.

There are times when you look at your life and realise how lucky you've been.

Every job I've ever gotten has been an accident. All the jobs I actually go after, I don't get.

There, but for the grace of God, goes God.

I've had an interesting career, and I don't know if it was by chance or grace.

I am a great believer in luck.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take. —Proverbs 3:5–6

And if God cares so wonderfully for flowers that are here today and thrown into the fire tomorrow, he will certainly care for you. Why do you have so little faith? —Luke 12:28

The loving God of the universe might not always fix it the way we expect, but He will fix it. — Joyce McDonald Hoskins —

No matter where we are in life's journey, we remain in the hands of God.

The Lord keeps you from all harm and watches over your life. —Psalm 121:7

Once I was young, and now I am old. Yet I have never seen the godly abandoned or their children begging for bread. —Psalm 37:25

God's watch care is active—ready to spring to meet our needs at any time. — Jeanette Gardner Littleton —

God's gift lists often contain blessings for us. — Steven Thompson

I will answer them before they even call to me. While they are still talking about their needs, I will go ahead and answer their prayers! —Isaiah 65:24

If you keep walking back from good luck, he thought, you'll come to bad luck.

The heart of a man plans his way," says Solomon, "but the LORD establishes his steps" (Proverbs 16:9). We are to plan in the here and now, but we can do so in the confidence that the Lord is acting in our lives and in our circumstances, calling us to His purpose.

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value

If we only look far enough off for the consequence of our actions, we can always find some point in the combination of results by which those actions can be justified: by adopting the point of view of a Providence who arranges results, or of a philosopher who traces them, we shall find it possible to obtain perfect complacency in choosing to do what is most agreeable to us in the present moment.

A kind Providence furnishes the limpest personality with a little gum or starch in the form of tradition.

it is a comfortable disposition leading us to expect that the wisdom of providence or the folly of our friends, the mysteries of luck or the still greater mystery of our high individual value in the universe, will bring about agreeable issues, such as are consistent with our good taste in costume, and our general preference for the best style of thing.

She filled up all blanks with unmanifested perfections, interpreting him as she interpreted the works of Providence, and accounting for seeming discords by her own deafness to the higher harmonies. And there are many blanks left in the weeks of courtship, which a loving faith fills with happy assurance.