Quotes About Providence

God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs

God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants His footsteps in the sea And rides upon the storm.

Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust him for his grace, behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.

For the arrow of fate cannot be parried by the shield of effort once God's decree has already passed another way.

Mother Nature is providential. She gives us twelve years to develop a love for our children before turning them into teenagers.

Christian, hath not God secretly instructed thee by his Spirit from the Word, how to read the shorthand of his providence? Dost

We disfigure the beautiful face of God's providence, when we fancy him to have a cast of his eye, and care, to one more than another.

Had I not best look up to him, by whose blessing I live more than by my bread?

Here is godliness in triumph—when the Christian can carve contentment out of God's providence, whatever the dish is that is set before him.

This is a noble magnificence of thought, a true religious greatness of mind, to be thus affected with God's general providence, admiring and magnifying His wisdom in all things; never murmuring at the course of the world, or the state of things, but looking upon all around, at heaven and earth, as a pleased spectator, and adoring that invisible hand, which gives laws to all motions, and overrules all events to ends suitable to the highest wisdom and goodness.

For a frequent intercession with God, earnestly beseeching him to forgive the sins of all mankind, to bless them with His providence, enlighten them with His Spirit, and bring them to everlasting happiness, is the divinest exercise that the heart of man can be engaged in.

God pours out his choicest blessings on those who are anxious that nothing shall stick to their hands. Individuals who value the rainy day above the present agony of the world will get no blessing from God.

There is a God in heaven who overrules all things for the best; and this is the comfort of my soul. . .How blessed it is to grow more and more like God!

Abraham Lincoln suffered through depression through his life and then suffered through the pain of conducting a civil war, and emerged with the sense that Providence had taken control of his life, that he was a small instrument in a transcendent task.

Our darkest hour is often the prelude to a great victory. God invades our circumstances and hides us with His cloak.

Accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.

Do you imagine that I repine at Providence, or curse my creation, because I go out of life, and put a period to a being which, were it to continue, would become ineligible: but I thank providence, both for the good which I have already enjoyed, and for the power with which I am endowed of escaping the ills that threaten me.

Rogers exulted in his choice to work in television. "I'm more convinced than ever that 'Children's Corner' is God's program," he wrote. "There's no doubt about it now in my mind that we are being well guided: whatever happens from now on I know will be for the best. Just too many factors have come together today for it to be 'man-planned.

The education of the world is a terrible one, and it has come down with relentless rigour on Africa from the most remote times! What the African will become after this awfully hard lesson is learned, is among the future developments of Providence. When He, who is higher than the highest, accomplishes His purposes, this will be a wonderful country, and again something like what it was of old, when Zerah and Tirhaka flourished, and were great.

Let us allow God to act; He brings things to completion when we least expect it.

Once we surrender our mind to God completely, He will take care of us in every way.

Never ask God to provide for you what you can provide for yourself. Get up and go get it because God will only provide what you can't.

Comfort is the god of our generation, so suffering is seen as a problem to be solved, and not a providence from God.

There is a God in heaven who overrules all things for the best; and this is the comfort of my soul.