Quotes About Providence

The more thoroughly a nation deals with its history, the more decidedly will it recognize and own an over-ruling Providence therein, and the more religious a nation it will become; while the more superficially it deals with its history, seeing only secondary causes and human agencies, the more irreligious will it be.

Este mundo está lleno de penurias, Dios lo sabe y no ahorra ninguna a sus propios sirvientes.

You have a right to feel the universe is willing to provide you with blessings, but not to the point that it cannot do without you.

So what does Boaz have to do with you and your daily life and pressures? Consider this: it means that God has a detailed and providential plan that He is working in your life—even when it seems like your life is dull and boring.

Providence is God's execution of His plan in your life and in the entire universe.

God's sovereignty is the real gold you need to get through life. And remember, the sovereignty of God means that He is king and has absolute control over all things.

In the Koran, there are ninety-nine different names for Allah. But not one of them can be translated as Father.7 Matthew 6 contains thirty-four verses, and in those thirty-four verses the Lord Jesus refers to the Father twelve times. You have a Father who is the sovereign God, in control of all things. And He has made some promises to you that His providence guarantees.

The providence of God leads us through all of our years, from womb to tomb.

It was John Flavel who said to his congregation in England, some three hundred years ago, "Some providences of God, like Hebrew letters, are best understood backwards.

But when God stops a financial source that has always been there, it simply means that He is going to open another source that you know nothing about.

It is indeed natural for us to wish and to plan, and it is merciful in the Lord to disappoint our plans.

William Rackham es lo que podríamos llamar un cristiano ateo supersticioso; es decir, cree en un Dios que si bien puede que ya no sea responsable de que salga el sol, de salvar a la reina o de proveer del pan de cada día, sigue siendo el principal sospechoso cuando algo va mal.

Joseph relied on his faith to save even when times were plentiful. Year after year he stored up grain. He never wavered from his task, even when the grain was overflowing.

Is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about?

Ma non è invece giusto il contrario, che un avvenimento è tanto più significativo e privilegiato quanti più casi fortuiti intervengono a determinarlo? Soltanto il caso può apparirci come un messaggio. Ciò che avviene per necessità, ciò che è atteso, che si ripete ogni giorno, tutto ciò è muto. Soltanto il caso ci parla. Cerchiamo di leggervi dentro come gli zingari leggono le immagini formate dai fondi del caffè in una tazzina.

Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us. We read it's message much as gypsies read the images made by coffee grounds at the bottom of a cup.

God sovereignly controls every detail of your life, which should be a great comfort to you.

Una vez le preguntaron a Napoléon Bonapatte si creía en la suerte. Él respondió, sí, lo creo. Creo en la mala suerte. Creo que siempre la tendré y planeo de acuerdo con eso.

The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgment to have safely traveled from star to star.

prayer and persistence, the good Lord will provide.

Everything happens for a reason, though we might not

Destiny was funny stuff, he knew. You couldn't trust it. Often you couldn't even see it. Just when you knew you had it cornered, it turned out to be something else—coincidence, maybe, or providence. You barred the door against it, and it was standing behind you. Then just when you thought you had it nailed down it walked away with the hammer.

But, oh, gentlemen, the ways of nature, or of God, and the Providence that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we may! It is man who proposes, but God—God—who disposes!

I believe that the Lord is going to take care of me. I know His will is the only way that can judge me or put me in my place.