Quotes About Providence

Alberto intentó consolarme con el sabido refrán de los derrotados: «Por algo pasan las cosas» (o como diría mi abuela: «Estaba de Dios que no sucediera»). Sí, de los derrotados, porque los que no se dan por vencidos jamás aceptan el veredicto de las circunstancias.

Os outros eu conheci por acaso. Você eu encontrei porque era preciso.

For each and every person, our Lord and Master provides sustenance. Why are you so afraid, O mind? The flamingos fly hundreds of miles, leaving their young ones behind. Who feeds them, and who teaches them to feed themselves? Have you ever thought of this in your mind?

So far as the majority of their acts are considered, crowds display a singularly inferior mentality; yet there are other acts in which they appear to be guided by those mysterious forces which the ancients denominated destiny, nature, or providence, which we call the voices of the dead, and whose power it is impossible to overlook, although we ignore their essence. It would seem, at times, as if there were latent forces in the inner being of nations which serve to guide them.

that no kindly providence was going to save you from the results of what you did, and that you had better be sure of your own strength because you could never be sure of anybody else's.

In the cross, the Christian has seen the special Providence of God. He has,in forgiving and regenerating grace, experienced Providence in his heart. From this new,positive experience in his own life, he looks out over his entire existence and over the whole world, and sees there the leading of God's fatherly hand.

Increase Mather, President of Harvard University, in his treatise on Remarkable Providences, insists that the smell of herbs alarms the Devil and that medicine expels him. Such beliefs have probably even now not wholly disappeared from among us.

Illness is merely the bitter, which a wise Providence mingles in the cup of life.

Book knew, however, that God provided. It might not always seem as though He did. Indeed, to the untrained eye it sometimes looked as though the Lord's methods were just plain berserk. But in the end, all said and done, He always came through. It was a cornerstone of Book's belief, the rock he had rebuilt his life upon.

Paul's suffering was neither corrective nor instructive. It was simply permitted by God so that the gospel might spread to others.

Isn't it lucky?

There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.

things keep falling in and out of place.this is the universe's way of taking care of me.

Worrying and Stressing is useless simply because whatever GOD has for you is for you. Let GOD happen.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

Let me enjoy the earth no less Because the all-enacting Might Which fashioned forth its loveliness Had other aims than my delight.

Some folk want their luck buttered.

Fear not, but trust in Providence Wherever thou may'st be.

By many a happy accident.

Divine Providence has spread her table everywhere, not with a juiceless green carpet, but with succulent herbage and nourishing grass, upon which most beasts feed.

fortuitous chance.

The biblical writers do not finally and fully resolve the tension between divine sovereignty and human freedom. They affirm the authenticity of human decisions, and yet they see God's sovereign hand behind all that occurs (Prov. 16:33; 21:1).161

It is our work to cast care, and it is God's work to take care.

They that seek the LORD shall not want [lack] any good thing' (Psalm 34:10). If it is good for us, we shall have it; if it is not good for us, then the withholding of it is good.