Quotes About Providence

Why work? The gods are there to lavish upon the faithful the good gifts of nature.

I am consoled by the fact that the Lord knows how to work and how to act, even with insufficient tools.

For the Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of the Ceremonies has been at work.

How strange a checker-work of Providence is the life of man!

There is a great Field-Marshal, my friend, who arrays our battalions; Let us to Providence trust, and abide and work in our stations.

Daddy worked for God, but asked for no pay. For he believed that God provides a way.

[T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect.

Evil did not catch God by surprise. He had a rescue plan, and He's still in the process of working out His plan.

If we are going to learn to trust God in adversity, we must believe God will allow nothing to subvert His glory so He will allow nothing to spoil the good He is working out in us and for us.

God's role in superintending our world and our lives is neither absentee landlord nor micromanager.

WHAT dark and bloody secrets the future hides from us," Alexandre Dumas would one day write in his memoir, meditating on his father's fate. "When they are revealed, men may realize that it is by the good providence of God they were kept in ignorance of them until the appointed time.

Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth that ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. W. H. Murray, The Scottish Himalaya Expedition

Dios escribe derecho con renglones torcidos.

Everything's explained by the constant intervention of Allah. And whatever happens had to happen, and was decreed at the beginning of time, and there's no way of even imagining how anything could have been different from what it is.

Always Christianity is somewhere in decline, he proposed, and "always Providence has another people quietly maturing to relieve the decadent of their burden.

Catey, you were so on it," said Sophie. "You just stood there and you looked around and you saw this convertible. You pointed at it and you said, 'The Lord provides.'

God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered.

Nothing in this world happens by chance.

Everything will happen as was written by the Lord, replied the prophet. There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason. What reason? That is a question we cannot answer before, or even during the trials. Only when we have overcome them do we understand why they were there.

For what place can be left for anything to happen at random so long as God controls everything in order? It is a true saying that nothing can come out of nothing.

Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it.

Certain sincerely devout and spiritually advanced people believe that the God of their understanding helps them find parking places and gives them advice on Mass. Lottery numbers.

There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow.

Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all.