Quotes About Providence

I always believed God gave us the tools to take care of ourselves.

I totally believe in opportunities. I don't believe in accidents. I just don't.

You know what the Jews say: Man plans and God laughs.

God wrote the script of your life before the doctor had the chance to slap your glutes (see Ps. 139:15-16).

A lucky man is a man you want fighting near you and he gives the needful sense that the world is a thing of mysteries and wonders. That it's bigger than you, bigger than all the shit and blood you seen, That God might be in it somehow looking out for you.

Our providential Lord diligently cares for His beloved followers. Sometimes He will give you exactly what you ask for. Other times He gives you more of Himself to fill the void. Either way, trust that God knows what is best, petition Him with your prayers, then keep watch as He consistently cares for you.

Know we how many tomorrows the gods intend for our todays.

In time comes he whom God sends.

Opportunity is being in God's place, at God's time, following God's instructions, to obtain God's results.

Time is an opportunity with every providence of God to reveal His Will.

Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good.

Matthew ten, verse twenty-nine," Vincenzo Giuliani said quietly. " 'Not one sparrow can fall to the ground without your Father knowing it.' " "But the sparrow still falls," Felipe said.

Kinda spooky, ain't it. Hell of a lot of coincidences. Like we say back home, when you find a turtle settin' on top of a fencepost, you can be pretty damn sure he didn't get there on his own.

Providence has a curious way of letting two lives run along, each apparently independent of the other. Parallel lines they seem, hopeless of meeting. Converging lines really, destined, through long ages, by every deed that has been done to meet as a certain point and there fuse.

We must talk and reach for common understandings, precisely because all of us are imperfect and can never act with the certainty that God is on our side; and yet at times we must act nonetheless, as if we are certain, protected from error only by providence.

My religious friends - and my friends were almost all Catholics or Protestants or occasionally something more exotic like Jewish or Greek Orthodox - were convinced that God had a plan for us, and since God was good, it was a good plan, which we were required to endorse even without having any idea what it was. Just sign the paperwork; in other words, don't overintellectualize.

Nobody had planted these flowers, I felt sure, nor harvested them either; these were works that the Lord had gone ahead and finished on His own. He must have lacked faith in mankind's follow-through capabilities, on the day he created flowers.

good and loving God who is in control

There'll be water if God wills it

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. It is destiny which makes them prudent.

God works in mysterious ways but at least he works, he's never on welfare in a mysterious way.

No andéis preocupados por vuestra vida, qué comeréis, ni por vuestro cuerpo, con qué os vestiréis…».

God will never let you sink under your circumstances. He always provides a safety net and His love always encircles.

we will stand amazed to see the topside of the tapestry and how God beautifully embroidered each circumstance into a pattern for our good and His glory.