Quotes About Providence

Was everything an accident of geography?

But God, famously, moves in mysterious ways.

Whatever befalls us has its meaning; though it is often hard to grasp. In the Book of Life every page has two sides. On the upper one, we inscribe our plans, dreams and hopes; the reverse is filled by providence, whose verdicts rarely match our desire.

Fate takes its own sweet time, but it always finds a way.

God overrules the evil intent of humans to accomplish His ultimate good.

Simply put, that we don't know a good purpose for some evil does not mean there is no good purpose for it. There are many things we don't know. And there are many things we once did not know but now do know. So it should be expected that in the future we will discover good purposes for things for which we do not now know a good purpose.

God, he knew, helped those who helped themselves. But wasn't God also there to catch you if you fell?

Heaven will provide. Or else it won't, and I'll go hungry.

There is nothing wrong with God's plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.

Coincidence is God's way of being anonymous.

God is a novelist. He uses all sorts of literary devices: alliteration, assonance, rhyme, synecdoche, onomatopoeia. But of all of these, His favorite is foreshadowing. And that is what God was doing at the Cloisters and with Eudora Welty. He was foreshadowing. He was laying traps, leaving clues, clues I could have seen had I been perceptive enough.

I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.

Russell said something in Sicilian about stormy weather conditions that roughly translates into "You never can tell how things are going to work out. The weather's in God's hands." I

Trust in nothing but in Providence and your own efforts. Never separate the two, like the heathen waggoner. Constancy in love is a good thing, but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.

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the eyes of the LORD move to and fro throughout the earth that He may strongly support those whose heart is completely His" (2 Chron. 16:9).

God knows what you need. He knows what is best for you—including in what quantity. The fact is, we can live with very little, but we can never truly live without God. He is what we need first, foremost, and always. He is the only one whom we truly can't do without! The

Friend, God is the same today as He was in Bible times, and He works through everything that touches your life for your good. Therefore, no matter how dire your circumstances may appear—or how far He stretches the last of your resources—trust Him to supply your needs.

If God has positioned us in a certain place, we must leave all the details to Him.

Luck never gives; it only lends.

And you think the Lord gives attention to such little details as how long a potato should cook?" asked Ruth earnestly. "Why yes, dear," answered the mother, "if you put a matter, even a little matter, into the Lord's hands to guide you, and trust that He will, of course He will.

The Lord cares for His own, even in little things." "Do you mean nothing ever happens against your wishes and prayers?" asked Eden almost breathlessly. "Oh, no, but I mean that when you leave it all to Him, He works it out marvelously. I don't mean it always comes the way you have planned it, or want it even, but that if it doesn't, you know it will work out in the end to be even better than you wanted, if you are patient and rest in Him.

Coincidence is not a word in the vocabulary of believers. 3-28-08

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