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Quotes About Providence

It is a splendid thing to have the use of any gift of God. It isn't for us to choose again, or wonder and dispute, but just work in our own places, and leave the rest to God.
~ Sarah Orne Jewett
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. ROMANS 8 : 28 But as for me, I watch in hope for the LORD, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me. MICAH 7 : 7
~ Sarah Young
When you try to figure out the future, you are reaching for something that is Mine.
~ Sarah Young
There is no randomness about your life. Here and Now comprise the coordinates of your daily life.
~ Sarah Young
MY JUDGMENTS ARE UNSEARCHABLE, and My paths are beyond tracing out! This
~ Sarah Young
You keep your plans tentative, knowing that My plans are far superior.
~ Sarah Young
We say we believe in God, trust in God, and are sustained by God; but in our actions we do everything for ourselves, trusting in ourselves and anxious about the providence of God, which unravels our theism.
~ Scot McKnight
Too often we believe like theists (a personal God) and act like deists (a distant, impersonal, noninteractive, uninvolved god). We say we believe in God, trust in God, and are sustained by God; but in our actions we do everything for ourselves, trusting in ourselves and anxious about the providence of God,
~ Scot McKnight
From nature one can learn the lessons of divine providence, and some of us need to be reminded of this because we can look and not see a world alive with God's presence.
~ Scot McKnight
I shall be supplied with whatever I need; and, if I have not everything I desire, I may conclude it is either not fit for me, or I shall have it in due time.
~ Matthew Henry
It's my luck that every time I feel I completely comprehend God's plan, I don't have a pencil with me.
~ Robert Breault
God is the ever active providence, by whose power systems after systems are being evolved out of chaos, made to run for a time and again destroyed.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet
~ Walter Scott
The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.
~ Mark Twain
the king he allowed he would drop over to t'other village without any plan, but just trust in Providence to lead him the profitable way - meaning the devil, I reckon.
~ Mark Twain
Not a sparrow falls to the ground without His seeing it. But it falls, just the same. What good is seeing it fall?
~ Mark Twain
Prov'dence don't fire no blank ca'tridges, boys.
~ Mark Twain
Así, pues, le dije: —Ya sabes, Tom, que no sirvo ni para limpiarte los zapatos. Pero no importa: Dios todopoderoso nos ha creado a todos y a unos los ha dejado ciegos mientras que a otros les ha dado los ojos para verlo todo. Me parece que yo no figuro entre estos últimos; pero sin duda está bien así, puesto que es Dios quien lo ha querido.
~ Mark Twain
feel as the good God feels when He looks out on His fleets of constellations ploughing the awful deeps of space and reflects with satisfaction that they are His—all His.
~ Mark Twain
God Almighty made us all, and some He gives eyes that's blind, and some He gives eyes that can see, and I reckon it ain't none of our lookout what He done it for; it's all right, or He'd 'a' fixed it some other way.
~ Mark Twain
I went right along, not fixing up any particular plan, but just trusting to Providence to put the right words in my mouth when the time come; for I'd noticed that Providence always did put the right words in my mouth if I left it alone.
~ Mark Twain
In a way, it was destiny.
~ Markus Zusak
Don't worry about tomorrow. Just do what God puts in front of you right now and leave the rest to Him.
~ Marta Perry
God has a plan. He always does, but sometimes people forget and try to make their own, imperfect plans. People can only see a little way down the road. But He can see the whole trip.
~ Martha Williamson