Quotes About Provision

As I've mentioned, a large part of my father's legacy is the lesson he taught his sons. He brought us together and said, 'The measure of a man is how well he provides for his children.

If all you need is a little temptation, then I am here at your service to provide it, ma'am.

Someone's got to look after the devil himself, as long as he wears clothes and needs food and drink.

Prepare! your toils only begin: wrap yourself in furs, and provide food, for we shall

very little is known about the fate of former welfare recipients because the 1996 welfare reform legislation blithely failed to include any provision for monitoring their postwelfare economic condition

His parents had made sure he and his brothers had everything they needed or wanted, had been well fed, well clothed, and well loved.

You fear to be in need—and to have your need answered. As do I.

From the point of view of morality, it is not important everyone should have the same. What is morally important is that each should have enough."6

Interestingly enough, there is some evidence that it is the provision of social support, as much or more than its receipt, that provides these protective benefits (and, somewhat unsurprisingly, that those who give more tend to receive more).9 Thus, it truly seems that it is better to give than to receive.

he now paid the allowance that permitted his son to live in frugal idleness.

We had two tins of Virol, which we were keeping for an emergency; but, finding ourselves in need of an oil-lamp to eke out our supply of candles, we emptied one of the tins in the manner that most appealed to us, and fitted it with a wick made by shredding a bit of canvas. When

I have no interest in eliminating the tension between justice and forgiveness by taking justice off the table. Given the subtleties of sin and the persistence of evil, we would soon be living in moral anarchy and political chaos if there were no provision for justice.

I've got four kids to feed and a wife to provide for. It's a worry but a great responsibility as well and one I relish.

We didn't wait for the renewable heat incentives to come into place; we wanted to be first to provide consumers with alternative ways to heat their homes.

My biggest financial fear is dying and not leaving enough to see my daughter through to adulthood and financial independence.

Like manna that fell for the Israelites, His grace falls, enough for today and then again for tomorrow.

God pays all bills He authorizes." When we take chances on our own, in ministry or business or finances, we take a risk. But if God directs us to do something, He will provide the desire, the means, the tools, and the wherewithal—and perhaps an angel—to help us.

trust in God's provision for the direction of their lives. "This means believing the Lord will stand strong when you cannot . . . that He will hold you up

Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body more than raiment?

And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Elijah.

He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.

And the children of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.

Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground--everything that has the breath of life in it--I give every green plant for food."