Quotes About Providence

Coincidence? Why, Austin, dont you know a coincidence is just a case of God remaining anonymous?

God can use bad events for His glory, but that doesn't mean He's behind them.

I discovered life sometimes has a way of giving you what you need, but not in the form you expect.

It is easy to respect secular Americans who hold fast to the Constitution and to American values generally. And any one of us who believes in God can understand why some people, given all the unjust suffering in the world, just cannot believe that there is a Providential Being.

Peace is, indeed, our policy. A kind Providence has cast our lot on a portion of the globe sufficiently vast to satisfy the most grasping ambition, and abounding in resources beyond all others, which only require to be fully developed to make us the greatest and most prosperous people on earth.

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.

It really is better to be lucky than to be good.

He sometimes allows something bad in our lives to prevent something far worse in our lives. That is a wondrous work of God I cannot even see, because sometimes I have no idea how God is working on my behalf.

In a clock, stop but one wheel and you stop every wheel, because they are dependent upon one other. So when God has ordered a thing for the present to be thus and thus, how do you know how many things depend upon this thing? God may have some work to do twenty years hence that depends on this passage of providence that falls out this day or this week.

In a clock, stop but one wheel and you stop every wheel, because they are dependent upon one another. So when God has ordered a thing for the present to be thus and thus, how do you know how many things depend upon this thing? God may have some work to do twenty years hence that depends on this passage of providence that falls out this day or this week.

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.

She knew that the word providence meant foresight, the future beheld before it was experienced.

I don't believe in coincidence. I just think that all things work together for good.

If Noah waited for signs of rain to build an ark, he would have been swept away by the flood.

Faith is trusting, that no matter what plan you had, God has a better one.

Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts.

You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.

Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.

The person who is content with the sparse description in Genesis 1 knows that the first six days were like our days within providence, but also unlike, because they were days of God's activity of initially creating instead of his activity of providential sustaining.

We only see a speck of what's happening in our lives, but God sees the whole picture.

Life is going to give you things that you deserve instead of what you plan or want. Always thank God for your profits and losses. Because God plans best for us.

Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.

Nothing ever happens by chance; everything is pushed from behind.

Affliction doth not rise out of the dust or come to men by chance; but it is the Lord that sends it, and we should own and reverence His hand in it.