Quotes About Providence

We don't get every kid. We get the ones we are supposed to get. It just kind of plays out that way, and it always has.

I feel like God has blessed me so much already, and he keeps continuing to bless me.

God does not step in and adjust minute details on a whim.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about? ~ Henry Ford

the truth is that God is so big that nothing that happens in our lives is outside the circle of who he is or beyond the realm of his great love for us.

In the doctrine of Providence, we have a specific Christian confession exclusively possible through faith in Jesus Christ. This faith is no general, vague notion of Providence. It has a concrete focus: 'If God is for us, who is against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely give us all things?' (Rom.8:31, 32).

Question 11 What are God's works of providence? Answer

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

It is possible to speak concretely about God's providnce only on the basis of the blood of the cross ... He who sees things this way will never succumb to the temptation to identify prosperity with blessing and adversity with curse. In faith ... one can accept prosperity as the gift of God and adversity as God's hand graciously leading him to faith.

Once again was it proved that the designs of Providence are impenetrable and that the sinner, climbing out of the pit of his filthiness, may feel himself touched by grace.

How much of your life had been happenstance? How much of your life had been a roll of the big polyhedral die in the sky? But then, weren't all lives that way? Who could say, in the end, that they had chosen any of it?

The minute she's back to Providence, A.J. calls her on Skype. "I've been thinking. We should have Leon Friedman come sign at the store in August while the summer people are still in town.

What is given by the gods more desirable than the fortunate hour?

When I thought about that, I remembered something I have heard in church. We each have a purpose in life, and if we're serving God, following him, living out God's calling and purposes for our life, then we can have faith that God is leading us, and even difficult times can turn out all right. God can cause all things to work together for good.

Intimacy is trusting that the Universe will provide what you need, when you need it, and in the manner most appropriate for you.

Elohim worked in mysterious ways.

What will happen, will happen.

Why are we worried!' Rolf said suddenly. 'This is God's work! He'll make a way for us.' And as if to prove his conviction, he started to sing.

Ohne Gott und Sonnen schein Holen Wir Die Ernte ein Without God and without sun We will get the harvest done I

Why are we worried!" Rolf said suddenly. "This is God's work. He'll make a way for us.

In the years of living this life of faith, I have never known God's care to fail.

God knoweth best what is needful for us, and all that He does is for our good. If we knew how much He loves us, we should always be ready to receive equally and with indifference from His Hand the sweet and the bitter: all would please that came from Him. The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, except when we see them in the wrong light.

That in the winter, seeing a tree stripped of its leaves, and considering that within a little time, the leaves would be renewed, and after that the flowers and fruit appear, he received a high view of the Providence and Power of GOD, which has never since been effaced from his soul. That this view had perfectly set him loose from the world, and kindled in him such a love for GOD, that he could not tell whether it had increased in above forty years that he had lived since.

When the real history of the world is written, it will show god's dealings with men, and the place the gospel has played in the rise and fall of nations.