Top 100 Quotes About God's Providence
#2. The quiet life is by no means the greatest life. Some characters can only reach the highest standard of spirituality by the disturbings or displacings in the order of God's providence.
F.B. Meyer
#3. He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright
Blaise Pascal
#4. Anxiety is a sin also because it is a lack of acceptance of God's providence in our lives.
Jerry Bridges
#5. Work is a major instrument of God's providence; it is how he sustains the human world.
Timothy Keller
#6. My soul was not only brought into harmony with itself and with God, but with God's providence. In the exercise of faith and love, I endured and performed whatever came in God's providence, in submission, in thankfulness, and silence.
Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
#7. In defiance of all the tortue, of all the might, of all the malice of the world, the liberal man will ever be rich; for God's providence is his estate, God's wisdom and power are his defence, God's love and favor are his reward, and God's word is his security.
Isaac Barrow
#8. Much of life appears mundane at the time. Yet in God's providence every moment includes significant details arranged by His divine hand.
Dillon Burroughs
#11. Worry is an intrusion into God's providence.
John Haggai
#12. We must mark God's providence leading us; and if providence tarries, tarry till providence comes
Charles Spurgeon
#13. They babble and talk absurdly who, in the place of God's providence, substitute bare permission - as if God sat in a watchtower awaiting chance events , and his judgments thus depended upon human will.
John Calvin
#14. God's providence is His constant care for and His absolute rule over all His creation for His own glory and the good of His people.
Jerry Bridges
#15. God's providence is never characterized
in broad generalities or pious abstractions but always in the particular, in the personal, in the recognition of grace in an unlikely time, at an unlikely place. Who could have anticipated ravens?
Eugene H. Peterson
#16. Trust the past to God's mercy, the present to God's love, and the future to God's providence.
Augustine Of Hippo
#17. The tidal wave of God's providence is carrying liberty throughout the globe.
Henry Ward Beecher
#19. Perhaps God's providence is nowhere more evident than in the fact that he gives parents twelve years to develop a love for their children before he turns them into teenagers! Chapter 18 contains some sobering words
Anonymous
#20. How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God's providence and love and express that gratitude to him. Ammon taught, 'Let us give thanks to (God), for he doth work righteousness forever.' Our degree of gratitude is a measure of our love for him.
Russell M. Nelson
#21. Nor bird nor beast
Could make me wish for anything this day,
Being old, but that the old alone might die,
And that would be against God's Providence.
William Butler Yeats
#22. Perhaps out inactivity is not so much waiting on God as it is an expression of the fear of man, the love of the praise of man, and disbelief in God's providence.
Kevin DeYoung
#24. Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of God's providence.
Hugh Blair
#25. The crisis of physical hunger is essentially a crisis of faith. What or whom will you trust to meet your most basic needs? Will you trust the God who made human bodies, or will you seek your own way? (Deuteronomy 8:1-3)
Charles R. Swindoll
#26. The Prophets even express their surprise that God should take notice of man, who is too little and too unimportant to be worthy of the attention of the Creator; how, then, should other living creatures be considered as proper objects for Divine Providence!
Maimonides
#27. The providence of God is subordinate to creation; and it is, therefore, necessary that it should not impinge against creation, which it would do, were it to inhibit or hinder the use of free will in man ...
Jacobus Arminius
#28. Comfort is the god of our generation, so suffering is seen as a problem to be solved, and not a providence from God.
Matt Chandler
#30. I believe that this was God's Will - to send a boy into the Reich, to let him become its Leader, in order to bring his home country into the Reich. Otherwise one must doubt Providence.
Adolf Hitler
#31. The antidote to busyness of soul is not sloth and indifference. The antidote is rest, rhythm, death to pride, acceptance of our own finitude, and trust in the providence of God.
Kevin DeYoung
#32. Behold, now, another providence of God. A ship comes into the harbor.
William Bradford
#33. God, who is liberal in all his other gifts, shows us, by the wise economy of His providence, how circumspect we ought to be in the management of our time, for He never gives us two moments together.
Francois Fenelon
#34. You know you have found your life mission when you say, I dare you to try and take this away from me.
Shannon L. Alder
#35. The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.
William Ames
#36. our lot is to fear God and find our contentment in his providence,
Douglas Bond
#37. Christian, hath not God secretly instructed thee by his Spirit from the Word, how to read the shorthand of his providence? Dost
William Gurnall
#38. God's time to help is when things are at the worst; and Providence verifies the paradox, The worse the better.
Matthew Henry
#39. A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles.
B. B. Warfield
#40. Those who understand God's sovereignty have joy even in the midst of suffering, a joy reflected on their very faces, for they see that their suffering is not without purpose.
R.C. Sproul
#41. When the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth His Son. Providence
Ellen G. White
#42. I still do find the prayers of the Kaddish quite moving, and I just substitute in my mind nature, although that's what the founders did in a lot of their documents, too. They substituted nature or providence for God. I think that's what I do in my head with Jewish God.
Susan Jacoby
#43. God is the ever active providence, by whose power systems after systems are being evolved out of chaos, made to run for a time and again destroyed.
Swami Vivekananda
#44. Chance is when you look at the world through humanity's eyes; providence is when you look at the world through God's eyes.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#45. To the dim and bewildered vision of humanity, God's care is more evident in some instances than in others; and upon such instances men seize, and call them providences. It is well that they can; but it would be gloriously better if they could believe that the whole matter is one grand providence.
George MacDonald
#47. God's purpose in providence is not to make us comfortable, but to make us conformable,
Warren W. Wiersbe
#48. Church History is the record of God's gracious, wonderful and mighty deeds, showing how by his Spirit and Word he rules his Church and conquers the world.
Nils Forsander
#49. 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.
Octavius Winslow
#50. There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.
R.C. Sproul
#51. In the Reformed tradition, a good deal of our stoicism and apathy rides like a parasite on the back of the doctrine of God's sovereignty and providence.
Toby J. Sumpter
#52. From nature one can learn the lessons of divine providence, and some of us need to be reminded of this because we can look and not see a world alive with God's presence.
Scot McKnight
#53. That by the decrees and volitions, and consequently the providence of God, Scripture (as I will prove by Scriptural examples) means nothing but Nature's order following necessarily from her eternal laws.
Baruch Spinoza
#54. Every ideal comes from us as do all the amenities of life, in order to make our existence as simple reproducers, for which divine Providence solely intended us, less monotonous and less hard.
Guy De Maupassant
#55. Providence is wiser than you, and you may be confident it has suited all things better to your eternal good than you could do had you been left to your own option.
John Flavel
#56. Go where thou wilt, thou canst not go out of thy Father's ground.
Thomas Boston
#57. If you have money, power, and status today, it is due to the century and place in which you were born, to your talents and capacities and health, none of which you earned. In short, all your resources are in the end the gift of God.
Timothy Keller
#58. The wise providence of God orders our affairs in many different ways and lovingly bestows on each one of us what is appropriate and profitable both for virtuous deeds and the mysteries of faith.
Gregory Palamas
#59. Now, said I aloud, My dear Father's Words are come to pass: God's Justice has overtaken me, and I have none to help or hear me: I rejected the Voice of Providence.
Daniel Defoe
#60. God rules and governs all events, including the free acts of men and their external circumstances, and directs all things to their appointed ends for His glory.
Layton Talbert
#61. If any man whatsoever hath carried on the design of deposing the King and disinheriting his posterity; or if any man hath yet such a design he should be the greatest traitor and rebel in the world; but, since the Providence of God hath cast this upon us, I cannot but submit to Providence.
Oliver Cromwell
#62. [W]isdom consists in following Providence step by step. And you can be sure of the truth of a maxim which seems paradoxical, namely, that he who is hasty falls back in the interests of God.
Vincent De Paul
#63. The goodness of God to mankind is no less evinced in the chastisement with which He corrects His children than in the smiles of His providence; for the Lord will not cast off forever, but though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion according to the multitude of His mercies.
Hosea Ballou
#64. We glorify God, by being contented in that state in which Providence has placed us. We give God the glory of his wisdom, when we rest satisfied with what he carves out to us.
Anonymous
#65. It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.
Franklin Pierce
#66. When you lie down on your bed to sleep, remember with thanksgiving the blessings and the providence of God.
Anthony The Great
#67. The ways of Providence cannot be reasoned out by the finite mind ... I cannot fathom them, yet seeking to know them is the most satisfying thing in all the world.
Selma Lagerlof
#68. Excluding the God of providence in your life's configuration and design is like removing the thermostat from a thermodynamic system.
Ikechukwu Joseph
#69. To escape the distress caused by regret for the past or fear about the future, this is the rule to follow: leave the past to the infinite mercy of God, the future to His good Providence, give the present wholly to His love by being faithful to His grace.
Jean-Pierre De Caussade
#70. Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good.
James K. Polk
#71. When human aid fails us, all is not wanting; for God takes over and takes care of us by His special Providence.
Francis De Sales
#72. Always receive with equal contentment from God's hand either consolations or sufferings, peace or distress, health or illness. Ask nothing, refuse nothing, but always be ready to do and to suffer anything that comes from His Providence.
Teresa Margaret Of The Sacred Heart
#73. God never sends the mouth but he sendeth meat.
John Heywood
#74. God's impressions within and His Word without are always corroborated by His providence around, and we should quietly wait until these three focus into one point. ... If you do not know what you ought to do, stand still until you do.
Priscilla Shirer
#75. I believe God rules all by his divine providence and that the stars by his permission are instruments.
William Lilly
#76. Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#77. A revelation is to be received as coming from God, not because of its internal excellence, or because we judge it to be worthy of God; but because God has declared it to be His in as plain and undeniable a manner as He has declared creation and providence to be His.
William Law
#78. God in His providence hasn't called us to watch history, but to shape history by praying in His Name.
David Platt
#79. And now ... farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude. I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.
Alexandre Dumas
#80. On observing 1963 America for the first time, the author says that organization and standardization to a certain degree compete with divine providence.
Karl Barth
#81. The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger.
Charles Spurgeon
#82. So in actual fact every human being is equally wealthy according to God's divine Providence
Sunday Adelaja
#83. As for Hitler, his professed religion unhesitatingly juxtaposed the God-Providence and Valhalla. Actually his god was an argument at a political meeting and a manner of reaching an impressive climax at the end of speeches.
Albert Camus
#84. God has a special providence for fools, drunkards, and the United States of America.
Otto Von Bismarck
#85. God planted the seeds of all the trees," continued Hetty, after a moment's pause, "and you see to what a height and shade they have grown! So it is with the Bible. You may read a verse this year, and forget it, and it will come back to you a year hence, when you least expect to remember it.
James Fenimore Cooper
#86. It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be.
Sigmund Freud
#88. When we abandon all to Him, He takes a tender care of us, and His Providence for us is great or small according to the measure of our abandonment.
Francis De Sales
#89. If God has given His Son to die for us, let us beware of doubting His kindness and love in any painful providence of our daily life.
J.C. Ryle
#90. If the requirements of world-structure are so inexorable, what scope is there for a free providence in distributing pleasures and pains? If pains are the natural rubs of a world-structure bearing on sentient creatures, what need have we to view them as instruments of a disciplinary providence?
Jocelyn Gibb
#91. We must talk and reach for common understandings, precisely because all of us are imperfect and can never act with the certainty that God is on our side; and yet at times we must act nonetheless, as if we are certain, protected from error only by providence.
Barack Obama
#92. Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.
Saint Ignatius
#93. Wealth and riches, that is, an estate above what sufficeth our real occasions and necessities, is in no other sense a 'blessing' than as it is an opportunity put into our hands, by the providence of God, of doing more good.
John Tillotson
#94. A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
Alexander Pope
#95. Let us hope ... that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.
Peter De Vries
#96. I believe in God as I believe in my friends, because I feel the breath of His affections, feel His invisible hand, drawing me, leading me, grasping me; because I possess an inner consciousness of a particular Providence and of a universal mind that marks out for me the course of my own destiny.
Miguel De Unamuno
#97. Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.
Henry Ward Beecher
#98. Every occupation has its own honor before God. Ordinary work is a divine vocation or calling. In our daily work no matter how important or mundane we serve God by serving the neighbor and we also participate in God's on-going providence for the human race.
Martin Luther
#99. The Existence of Deity, that he made the World, and govern'd it by his Providence; that the most acceptable Service of God was the doing Good to Man; that our Souls are immortal; and that all Crime will be punished and Virtue rewarded either here or hereafter ...
Benjamin Franklin
#100. My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.
James Otis
