Quotes About Providence

We think we are pushing our own way bravely, but there is a great Hand in ours all the time.

Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now.

Lawyer: And what people live on is a mystery to me. They marry with an income of two thousand crowns when they need four. They borrow, to be sure, they all borrow ... but who has to pay in the end? Tell me that! Daughter: He Who feeds the birds.

Some people carry their luck with them and people got to find it.

You know you will get what you need, if not necessarily what you ask for.

There will be water if God wills it.

If it happens, God lets it happen, and when we say 'I don't understand,' God replies, 'I don't care.

God pounds his nails.

L.G. O'Connor, Trinity Stones

The Lord sends rain due season.

If God has given His Son to die for us, let us beware of doubting His kindness and love in any painful providence of our daily life.

God has not abandoned us any more than he abandoned Job. He never abandons anyone on whom he has set his love; nor does Christ, the good shepherd, ever lose track of his sheep.

He that made all things for love, by the same love keepeth them, and shall keep them without end.

Ev'ry time it rains it rains pennies from Heaven.Don't you know each cloud contains pennies from Heaven?

All our good is more apparently from God, because we are first naked and wholly without any good, and afterwards enrich with all good.

Indeed, the case very often such, by the seeming calls of Providence, as made it extremely difficult for him to do more than his strength would admit of. Yea, his circumstances and the business of his mission...were such that great fatigues and hardships were altogether inevitable.

Natural men's prudence and care to preserve their own lives, or the care of others to preserve them, don't secure 'em a moment. This, divine providence and universal experience does also bear testimony to.

Nothing in the "Letter," nothing in the bedlam of Birmingham or its bittersweet aftermath, suggest that King viewed America as a providential nation whose destiny was freedom. Rather, that exceptional nation first had to be created by the exceptionally brave and spiritual people of the civil rights movement.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.

Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind.

We have the tendency to trace the good in our lives back to ourselves. But in the end, we find that it is all a work of God.

so true is it that a gracious hand leads us in ways that we know not, and blesses us not only without, but even against, our plans and inclinations.

We are apt to believe in Providence so long as we have our own way; but if things go awry, then we think, if there is a God, he is in heaven, and not on earth.