Quotes About Providence

God doesn't make mistakes.

Don't throw away luck on little stuff. Save it up.

God's will.

He'd gone through the first two decades of his life taking it for granted that everything would always be okay, that he could only fall so far before someone would catch him and set him back on his feet.

You can sleep peacefully at night because you are God's beloved—you have aligned yourself underneath His lordship and comprehensive rule—and He is working while you are snoring.

You know, one thing I've seen in my eight decades of life is that the Lord works His will in mysterious and mighty ways.

You know, one thing I've seen in my eight decades of life is that the Lord works His will in mysterious and mighty ways. Today is yet another example.

Diversity is not an accident or a problem ; it is a sign of God's providence and promise. If the church gets this wrong, it is not just getting race and ethnic difference wrong. It is getting the gospel wrong . We cannot obey the Great Commission without celebrating the glory of the new humanity only Christ can create.

What if the Hand of God decides to choke you to death on your next portion of Parma ham?

Reciprocity is a very profound dimension of al-?amd: the initiation is divine – His providence, mercy and care; the response is human – his praise, gratitude and remembrance.

The Lord is constantly teaching us. I know He has me in His right pocket and I'm very safe there. I love to see Him really work in my life, and I know He'll use me in His due time.

We can't really definde good, can we? Good for one person might be ruination for another. The problem with our human eyes is that we can only see the right now. But God? He sees around the corner, over the hill, and clean to the horizon. He knows what's comin', an' He knows what we need to be prepared for what's comin'. So sometimes those things we face that we don't understand - the things we think of as bad - are really for our good down the line.

There are no wasted steps in a God-directed journey.

The problem with our human eyes is that we can only see the right now. But God? He sees around the corner, over the hill, and clean to the horizon. He knows what's comin', an' He knows what we need to be prepared for what's comin'. So sometimes those things we face that we don't understand—the things we think of as bad—are really for our good down the line.

The Lawd gives an' the Lawd takes away, an' we just praise Him for knowin' what's best.

My mother used to say that the gods made the world round so that we could never see too far into our own future.

The truth is this: The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient; the work of progress is so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope." —ROBERT E. LEE

It is both a blessing and a curse that one could never see too far down the road ahead

As Romans 8:28 assures us, "We know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.

Some lives are not ours to hold on to; God makes His choices without us.

Maybe that's how God provides. He put me in your path and you in mine.

La scienza della realtà e della necessità, delle cause e delli effetti, dell'ingegni di puntamento, di percussione e di prótasi, quella sola può leggere dal suo quaderno che in sul capo all'Autore cadrà il pomo dall'albero, piantato nel prato, e disgregatasi invece dalle torri erme dell'alpe cadrà la pietra, cercando il profondo; che il giusto colpo springherà tremendo sopra al bersaglio; e che l'erba, che sarà cresciuta, la mangerà il cavallo, che campato sarà.

everything. She lives with a profound confidence that he holds the whole world (including her) in his hands.

Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; / Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.