Quotes About Providence

The pastor boomed out again: "My friends, who can say where it will end? Who can say when the Lord will at last be pleased with us?

Mama said that there was not going to be a bank robbery—the Lord wouldn't allow it. Frank didn't see why not, and Papa seemed to agree with him—he said, "Well, he's allowed plenty of 'em." Mama said that sometimes Satan got away with things and sometimes he didn't

The story of her life. God gave you everything just to take it away. Just so you knew exactly what you were missing.

God gave you everything just to take it away. Just so you knew exactly what you were missing.

God is like that, Virginia concluded. He's always on duty. Moving from one need to another. Always there- for everyone. He'll get us through this. He has a way.

The more I try to unravel the mysteries of the world in which we live, the more I come to the conception of a single overruling power - God.

The Man Upstairs is taking care of me.

With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end.

All shall work together for good; everything is needful that He sends; nothing can be needful that He withholds.

God did His most magnificent work while Adam was asleep. This episode contains and important insight: When man rests, God works.

The Lord Jesus sits in heaven, ruling over all, and causing all things to work for his children's good.

Wealth comes from hard work but not because of hard work. Wealth comes because of God. Everything is His.

The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.

God has ways of shaking the world when He is at work. He literally caused the ground to quake when Jesus died on the cross.

The nature of the work is to prepare for a good accident .

God never made his work for man to mend.

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

In some strange way, this was meant to be.

Identify the source for all the opportunities, experiences, and relationships you appreciate. Your job, the life-changing trip you took last year, your home, your car—all of these came from a source who cares about you and is thoughtful toward you. The immediate source could be a person or a group of people, but ultimately the source of all these good things is God.

If we could lift the veil and if we watched with vigilant attention, God would endlessly reveal himself to us and we should see and rejoice in his active presence in all that befalls us. At every event we should exclaim: "It is the Lord!" —Jean Pierre de Caussade

If you want to make God smile, tell him your plans

I'm the type of person who, if somebody offers me a free meal, I get excited because you never know where your next free meal is going to come from.

The good Lord put oil and gas there for us to find and use, and we'd better do it.