Best 112 quotes in «providence quotes» category

Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.

Bountiful as is the hand of Providence, its gifts are not so bestowed as to seduce us into indolence, but to rouse us to exertion.

But I'm in favor of every religion with the possible exception of snake-chunking. Anybody that so presumes on how he stands with Providence that he will let a snake bite him, I say he deserves what he's got coming to him.

Fear not, but trust in Providence, Wherever thou may'st be.

[D]ivine Providence... keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul.

Do I learn through dark providences, or simply seem relieved when they are over?

Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms. [Ger., Die Gaben Kommen von oben herab, in ihren eignen Gestalten.]

Fate! There is no fate. Between the thought and the success God is the only agent. Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

God tempers the cold to the shorn sheep.

God's providence is not blind, but full of eyes.

God's providence is on the side of clear heads.

Grace makes the promise and providence the payment.

Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.

Chance is a nickname for Providence.

Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, the Creator of the Universe. That He governs it by His Providence. That He ought to be worshipped.

History is the revelation of Providence.

If heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.

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

I am convinced that nothing will happen to me, for I know the greatness of the task for which Providence has chosen me.

I knew I had to get out of Boston and stop making movies there, at least for one movie, otherwise no one would ever consider me for a movie that took place south of Providence.

In all God's providences, it is good to compare His word and His works together; for we shall find a beautiful harmony between them, and that they mutually illustrate each other.

In all created things discern the providence and wisdom of God, and in all things give Him thanks.

It is because we have such shallow views of God's love that we have such defective views of God's dealings. We blindly interpret the symbols of His providence, because we so imperfectly read the engravings of His heart.

I know nothing of the science of astrology and I consider it to be a science, if it is a science, of doubtful value, to be severely left alone by those who have any faith in Providence.

No life can surpass that of a man who quietly continues to serve God in the place where providence has placed him.

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

Prayer is one of the necessary wheels of the machinery of providence.

Providence has at all times been my only dependence, for all other resources seemed to have failed us.

I must not quarrel with the will Of highest dispensation, which herein, Haply had ends above my reach to know.

Providence is a greater mystery than revelation.

The boundless stores of Providence are engaged for the support of the believer.

That's best Which God sends. 'Twas His will: it is mine.

The axle of the wheels of the chariot of Providence is Infinite Love, and Gracious Wisdom is the perpetual charioteer.

The belief in free-will is not in the least incompatible with the belief in Providence, provided you do not restrict the Providence to fulminating nothing but fatal decrees.

The well of Providence is deep. It's the buckets we bring to it that are small.

Tie your camel up as best you can, and then trust it to Providence.

We cannot measure Divine Providence by the yardstick of human mentality.

The moment we definitely commit ourselves, Providence moves, too.

We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

When I have no idea, I gnaw my nails and invoke the aid of Providence.

While the saving message spread day by day, some providence brought from Ethiopia an officer of the queen, for that nation is still traditionally ruled by a woman.

Woman! thou loveliest gift that here below Man can receive, or Providence bestow.

Ain’t it queer that she’d take to stones, bugs, and butterflies, and save them. Now they are going to bring her the very thing she wants the worst. Lord, but this is a funny world when you get to studying! Looks like things didn’t all come by accident. Looks as if there was a plan back of it, and somebody driving that knows the road, and how to handle the lines. Anyhow, Elnora’s in the wagon, and when I get out in the night and the dark closes around me, and I see the stars, I don’t feel so cheap.

And so sovereign Providence has often produced a remarkable effect--evil men making other evil men good. For some, when they think they suffer injustice at the hands of the worst of men, burn with hatred for evil men, and being eager to be different from those they hate, have reformed and become virtuous. It is only the power of God to which evils may also be good, when by their proper use He elicits some good result.

God schedules a birthday, not man.

God's fundamental goal for believers is not to protect us from harm or suffering, to make us comfortable, or to benefit from our service. You can biblically sum up God's primary aim for your whole life in one uncomfortable word: change. Ironic as it may sound, change is the one constant that God purposes for every believer, regardless of circumstances - whether you are in ministry or in a secular job, married or single, healthy or handicapped, chronically ill or terminally diseased. God's immediate and ongoing purpose for every Christian in time and on earth is to change us, to make us like Himself, to conform us to the image of His Son.

The tidal wave of God's providence is carrying liberty throughout the globe.

A golden opportunity may turn into silver if you wait too long to take advantage of it.