Quotes About Providence

It's going to be okay, child. You're going to make it. God does everything for a reason, leaves nothing to chance, does it all, plans it all, all with purpose, all with meaning, all with love, all with care, all with . . . " The old man hesitated a moment and his smile broadened. "And if there's one thing I've learned in my 93 years on this little clump of dirt, God does it with wonderful style and timing. In His way and in His time.

The liabilities were easy: He was locked in a trunk, bound and gagged; he had a nuclear bomb for a head rest, and there was a dead body lying beside him. The assets were a little more difficult. And then it hit him. If nothing occurred without God's approval, and he left nothing to chance, then everything that happened to him was part of God's larger plan. He thought about it. If all that were true, and God loved His creation, then . . . his liabilities were also his assets.

Coincidence is the exception, not the rule.

I thought about people loving dogs and dogs loving people, which, proved--to me, at least--there was more than science in the universal scheme of things. If dogs just scratched, and people just went to work, maybe I'd doubt God. But with love floating around, senseless love abounding, then I don't doubt divine Providence.

God does watch over us and does notice us, but it usually through someone else that he meets our needs.

God does notice us, and he watches over us. But it is usually through another person that he meets our needs.

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

In a word, human kingdoms are established by divine providence. And if any one attributes their existence to fate, because he calls the will or the power of God itself by the name of fate, let him keep his opinion, but correct his language.

Prayers, also, are of avail to procure those things which He foreknew that He would grant to those who offered them.

Nevertheless power and domination are not given even to such men save by the providence of the most high God, when He judges that the state of human affairs is worthy of such lords.

For the steps of a man are ordered by the Lord, and He shall dispose his way.

My past, O Lord, to Your mercy; my present, to Your love; my future to Your providence.

We do not see our hand in what happens, and so we call certain events melancholy accidents...

Providence, assuredly, is a mysterious mover, and who is Jane to ignore it's direction?

A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only by love, and touch only by virtue.

[W]isdom consists in following Providence step by step. And you can be sure of the truth of a maxim which seems paradoxical, namely, that he who is hasty falls back in the interests of God.

Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.

Another foundational truth is that God has a plan for history. History is providential, not accidental.

All things under heaven are now in God's supervision for all eternity! Alleluia! Amen!

God really wants to talk to us. He tried Scripture, he tries the still small voice, but we're all unbelievers now, so he mainly speaks to us through a conspiracy of accidents.

Our way is where God knows And Love knows where: We are in Love's hand to-day.

Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the theologic virtues of marriage.

Perhaps out inactivity is not so much waiting on God as it is an expression of the fear of man, the love of the praise of man, and disbelief in God's providence.

Even in my bad luck I have always been lucky.