Quotes About Provision

There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement.

God's greatest provision is the gift of a part of His Own Being in the person of the Holy Spirit.

Come to me, that I may give your flesh to the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the field

Always plan no matter how improbable it seems. . The bill for hindsight is much more expensive than the reciept for foresight.

God has provided food for every bird, but He doesn't throw it in their nests

Everyone gives what he has. The soldier gives strength, the merchant goods, the teacher instruction, the farmer rice, the fisherman fish.

Barukh atah Adonai, Eloheinu, melekh ha-olam hamotzi lechem min ha'aretz." Blessed are you, Lord, our God, King of the Universe, who brings forth bread from the earth.

A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilisation.

I felt free this time, knowing I had a job and that I wasn't going to be graded. I could simply experiment and create. The thought occurred to me that if I always lived under the certainty of God's provision instead of the certainty of Lexi's worry, I might always feel this free.

There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. Mahatma Gandhi I

And you know what they say. Always carry a large flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and further, always carry a small snake.

When you don't know where you're going, maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to have more than you need.

Although for food they hungered sore He sent them drink, enough and more!

Often God will send us what we need in a package we don't want. Why? To let us know He's God and we cannot second-guess Him. We cannot search for answers merely with our heads; we must seek Him and His provision with our hearts. Scripture cannot be interpreted from our limited human mental understanding. There must be a breath of the Spirit of God. He alone gives wise counsel and correct application.

We must always keep in mind all legitimate authority is from God, and is given for protection, provision, and peace.

Thus it is that we may patiently pass through this life with its misery, hunger, cold, contempt, reproaches, and other troubles - content with this one thing: that our King [Jesus] will never leave us destitute, but will provide for our needs until, our warfare ended, we are called to triumph.

but will supply our necessities until our warfare is ended, and we are called to triumph: such being the nature of his kingdom, that he communicates to us whatever he received of his Father. Since then he arms and equips us by his power, adorns us with splendour and magnificence

Relying on the market to provide both private and public goods will always lead to underprovision of the latter.

We do need to plan ahead, don't we, in life? I have spare tire on my car. I also have life insurance. I have a lot of things that I plan ahead for.

A policy of life insurance is the cheapest and safest mode of making a certain provision for one's family.

and the spawn of shads, which then they got in abundance, insomuch as they gave us spoons to eat them. With these they boiled musty acorns; but of the shads we eat heartily.

There was the greatest store of fowl that ever we saw.

The upshot is that new rights cannot be suddenly "discovered" years later in a document, unless everyone affected by the document had somehow overlooked an applicable provision that was there all along.

So where there is a conflict between a general provision and a specific one, whichever was enacted later might be thought to prevail. But that analysis disregards the principle behind the general/specific canon—namely, that the two provisions are not in conflict, but can exist in harmony. The specific provision does not negate the general one entirely, but only in its application to the situation that the specific provision covers. Hence the canon does apply to successive statutes.