Top 100 Quotes About Provision
#1. Wherever a pain is, that's where the cure goes; wherever poverty is, that's where provision goes. Wherever a difficult question is, that's where the answer goes; wherever a ship is, water goes to it. Don't seek the water; increase your thirst, so water may gush forth from above and below.
Jalaluddin Rumi
#2. Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine.
Wes Smith
#3. Provision was also made for the distribution of Germany's foreign assets among the Allies.
James F. Byrnes
#4. To obey the commands of Scripture can finally become a delight when we see that the reasons almost always center around God's love and provision for us in Christ.
Matt Chandler
#5. By recalling God's past provision, we can reassure ourselves that what He has done in the past, He will do again in the future.
Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson
#6. Implicit trust in God's provision should be a natural result if a person has trusted in Christ for salvation. But sadly it isn't always.
Various
#7. counter-cultural. We're so used to having more than enough that many of us have never truly learned what it is to trust God to provide what we need. Yet sometimes God will lead us to this place to teach us to trust Him, to rely on His provision and to experience the wonder of His love.
Jennifer Carter
#8. Life is also an exam but there is no provision for reappearing
Samar Sudha
#9. Why the confidential advisor provision is so important, because most women - the first place they go is online: "What do I do if I'm raped?" There's no knowledge about "How do I proceed?" in a way that's going to protect them.
Kirsten Gillibrand
#11. No power but Congress can declare war, but what is the value of this constitutional provision, if the President of his own authority may make such military movements as must bring on war?
Daniel Webster
#12. Where God gives vision He always provides provision
Joel Osteen
#13. God makes provision for our holiness, but He gives us the responsibility of using those provisions.
Jerry Bridges
#14. A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
Paul Farmer
#15. Poor people are subject to fancies - this is a provision of nature.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#16. But I'm not pro death penalty. I - I'm just anti the notion that it is not a matter for democratic choice, that it has been taken away from the democratic choice of the people by a provision of the Constitution.
Antonin Scalia
#17. So the effect of this Republican provision to allow doctors to be gagged from even discussing abortion with their patients is outrageous.
Frank Lautenberg
#19. 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.
Sandra Byrd
#20. God knows what each one of us is dealing with. He knows our pressures. He knows our conflicts. And He has made a provision for each and every one of them. That provision is Himself in the person of the Holy Spirit, indwelling us and empowering us to respond rightly.
Kay Arthur
#21. In proportion as our cares are employed upon the future, they are abstracted from the present, from the only time which we can call our own, and of which, if we neglect the apparent duties to make provision against visionary attacks, we shall certainly counteract our own purpose.
Samuel Johnson
#22. Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.
Karl Kraus
#23. But at least their provision was universal, and for good and ill they were regarded as a public responsibility.
Tony Judt
#24. When God sends no answer and "the cloud remain[s]," we must wait. Yet we can do so with the full assurance of God's provision of manna, water from the rock, shelter, and protection from our enemies. He never keeps us at our post without assuring us of His presence or sending us daily supplies.
Lettie B. Cowman
#25. The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.
Robert Bork
#26. Food production is just one part of the repeated emphasis that you store a provision of food which will last for at least a year wherever it is legally permissible to do so.
Ezra Taft Benson
#27. When we acknowledge our inability to mother our children apart from the Lord's provision and strength, we honor God. Of course we are not able to do this work of raising children and training them in the instruction of the Lord. That's why we desperately need the Lord!
Gloria Furman
#28. The prima facie evidence provision in this case ignores all of the contextual factors that are necessary to decide whether a particular cross burning is intended to intimidate. The First Amendment does not permit such a shortcut.
Sandra Day O'Connor
#29. Making provision for an uncertain future has taken the very simple form of an investment (usually leveraged, that is debt-financed) in a house,
Niall Ferguson
#30. One morsel of God's provision, especially when it comes in unexpectedly, and upon prayer, when wants are most, will be more sweet
John Flavel
#31. Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies.
James Stephens
#32. Impostor; do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous With her abundance; she, good cateress, Means her provision only to the good, That live according to her sober laws, And holy dictate of spare temperance.
John Milton
#33. Whenever we participate in and enjoy God's provision, we have a vision. We see God and He sees us. Because we are in His provision and have the vision, everything is clear, nothing is opaque, and there is no separation between us and Him.
Witness Lee
#34. Abiding does not mean sitting idly by. It means resting in the work, resting in the moment, resting in the truth, resting in the confidence that God is your provision.
Robin Bertram
#35. Every state in America has an end of life directive or durable power of attorney provision. For the peace of mind of your children and your spouse as well as the comfort of knowing the government won't make these decisions, it's a very popular thing. Just not everybody's aware of it.
Johnny Isakson
#36. O World, try to deceive someone else. Are you trying to tempt me or attract me? No way! I divorce you irrevocably. Your time is short and you are insignificant. Alas! The provision is little, the journey is long and the way is lonely.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#37. [It] is indispensable that some provision should be made for defending the Community agst [against] the incapicity, negligence or perfidy of the chief Magistrate.
James Madison
#38. In the Old Testament, we are continually told that our good works are not enough, that God has made a provision. This provision is pointed to at every place in the Old Testament.
Tullian Tchividjian
#39. All Cabinet Ministers and other senior ministers are still sworn in as Privy Counsellors for life. The oath (which dates back to the thirteenth-century and has been described as Britain's oldest secrecy provision) commits them to keep all advice to the monarch secret.
Clive Ponting
#40. His soul was shaped by the cadence of Sabbath keeping and seasonal festivals that were intended to help Him and all people to remember God's faithfulness, protection, and provision.
Stephen W. Smith
#41. Sometimes it is hard to accept God's provision, but He is unchanging and always lovingly cares for us.
Gary Chapman
#42. Too often, what we want is the stuff of God. We want protection. We want his provision. We want to be defended when we're dishonored. We want to be helped when we serve. We want what God can bring us, but do we really want him?
Mark Hall
#43. The caretaking has to be done. "Somebody's got to be the mommy." Individually, we underestimate this need, and as a society we make inadequate provision for it. Women take up the slack, making the need invisible as we step in to fill it.
Mary Catherine Bateson
#44. Just as water is the only thing that can relieve thirst in the desert, the provision of God's Word is the only thing that can satisfy our spiritual thirst.
Jim George
#45. It is pretty clear in the Bible story that the whale swallowing Jonah wasn't meant as a punishment from God, it was God saving him from drowning. So it was actually provision to give him a second chance. The whale itself was the start of Jonah's second chance.
Phil Vischer
#46. Jesus, help us to build our faith in You, and to believe in Your provision for every need. We also ask You to give us a vision of what You want to do in our lives for Your glory. In Your name, amen.
Stephen Kendrick
#47. If there's a supernatural agent that is working in the natural world, then the idealized conditions described by the law are no longer in effect. The law isn't violated because the law has this implicit provision that nothing is messing around with the conditions.
William Lane Craig
#48. Businesses large and small shouldn't have to check the expiration date of a tax provision to see if it's still good.
Michael Enzi
#49. No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority.
Thomas Jefferson
#50. There are wrongs for which religion makes no provision, and of which it has no comprehension.
Wanda
Ouida
#51. We are gathered here to send our gratitude to Pinnacle Officer Wilcox
and FERTS, for our daily provision and protection from those who would seek to strike against our Vassals, our Fighters and our Internees.
Grace Hudson
#52. Absolute justice demands that mens incomes and rewards should ... vary, and that some have more than others-so long as human justice is upheld by the provision of equal opportunity for all.
Sayyid Qutb
#53. But each in its own way was affected by the growing intolerance of immoderate inequality, initiating public provision to compensate for private inadequacy.
Tony Judt
#54. This is how God works. He puts people in positions where they are desperate for his power, and then he shows his provision in ways that display his greatness
David Platt
#55. Abundance isn't God's provision for me to live in luxury. It's his provision for me to help others live. God entrusts me with his money not to build my kingdom on earth, but to build his kingdom in heaven.
Randy Alcorn
#56. A truly modern man, William Rackham is what might be called a superstitious atheist Christian; that is, he believes in a God who, while He may no longer be responsible for the sun rising, the saving of the Queen or the provision of daily bread, is still the prime suspect when anything goes wrong.
Michel Faber
#57. 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.
Eugene H. Peterson
#58. IMPROVIDENCE, n. Provision for the needs of to-day from the revenues of to-morrow.
Ambrose Bierce
#59. I fully support Attorney General Cuccinelli and his efforts in challenging the constitutionality of the individual mandate provision in the health care legislation, and I look forward to working to repeal and defund the government takeover of health care in the 112th Congress.
Robert Hurt
#60. No organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration.. No foresight can anticipate nor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions.
Abraham Lincoln
#61. As to any sense of inequality, or youthfulness, or other difficulty in our way, little Em'ly and I had no such trouble, because we had no future. We made no more provision for growing older, than we did for growing younger.
Charles Dickens
#62. The very provision of benches by the council or the corporation acknowledges the human need to be private in public, to be conspicuously idle, to have nothing better to do.
Mal Peet
#63. Machismo makes no provision for preparing lunch, doing the laundry, or minding the baby.
Mason Cooley
#64. If you make provision for the desires of the flesh and bear a grudge against your neighbor on account of something transitory, you worship the creature instead of the Creator.
Maximus The Confessor
#65. Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
E. O. Wilson
#66. Partial-birth abortion, I think that's going to be upheld. I think that ban is going to be upheld. I think it should be. And I think, as long as there's provision for the life of the mother, then that's something that should be done.
Rudy Giuliani
#67. It is a wise provision that youth cannot see what it owes the previous generation. This is a chicken that comes back to roost in heavier years.
Miles Franklin
#68. The fact that the prohibited tree was placed in the center of the garden, right next to the Tree of Life (Gen. 2:9), symbolizes that the life that God intends for us revolves around our honoring God's prohibition as much as trusting God for his provision.The
Gregory A. Boyd
#69. Consciously designed landscapes which mimic the patterns and relationships found in nature, while yielding an abundance of food, fibre and energy for provision of local needs.
David Holmgren
#70. One of the gaps in our international development efforts is the provision of global public goods - that is, goods or conditions we need that no individual or country can secure on their own, such as halting global warming, financial stability and peace and security.
Anna Lindh
#71. A policy of life insurance is the cheapest and safest mode of making a certain provision for one's family.
Benjamin Franklin
#72. Instead of imagining all the things we can accomplish, we ask God to do what only he can accomplish. Yes, we work, we plan, we organize, and we create, but we do it all while we fast, while we pray, and while we constantly confess our need for the provision of God.
David Platt
#73. Our independence from AOL was so important to me that I negotiated an extremely odd provision in our purchase agreement that allowed me to disclose confidential information about AOL. It was their job never to give me that information. It was not my job to protect it in any way.
Michael Arrington
#74. If we make provision for sinning tomorrow, we will be sinning tomorrow.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#75. God has made the provision for every man on earth to be equally endowed with the currency time
Sunday Adelaja
#76. When we stray from His presence, He longs for you to come back. He weeps that you are missing out on His love, protection and provision. He throws His arms open, runs toward you, gathers you up, and welcomes you home.
Charles Stanley
#77. In order to cease our striving, we must transfer our trust away from our own abilities, our own accomplishments, our own strength, and place it on His provision.
Charles R. Swindoll
#78. The drives were nature's first provision: thinking was added later, to get us around the world's obstacles to them.
James Richardson
#79. NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life.
Ambrose Bierce
#80. I am outraged that a House member has tried through this provision to breach the traditional confidentiality of individual Americans' tax returns. There is no reason for this measure, and this last-minute act violates all principles of judgment and common sense.
John Warner
#81. Provision must be made for the extension of speedy and effective assistance when any African State is threatened with military aggression. We cannot rely solely on international morality.
Haile Selassie
#82. I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours.
Jonathan Swift
#83. In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of a large and growing School of English Studies, in which no regular provision had as yet been made for the linguistic specialist.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#84. Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.
Bias Of Priene
#85. Rejecting the fundamental provision of the Civil Rights Act is a rejection of the foundational promise of America that all men and women should be treated equally, a promise for which many Americans have lost their lives.
John Yarmuth
#86. When we worry, we are telling God, "You are neither trustworthy nor in control, so I need to worry and scheme as I take matters into my own hands." In this way unbelief drives worry, for it is impossible to worry when we are trusting in the provision of our sovereign God.
James MacDonald
#87. Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.
Rutherford B. Hayes
#88. It will be well to advert to the proportion between the objects that will require a federal provision in respect to revenue; and those which will require a state provision. We shall discover that the former are altogether unlimited; and that the latter are circumscribed within very moderate bounds.
Alexander Hamilton
#89. Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
#90. Provision is the foundation of hospitality, and thrift the fuel of magnificence.
Philip Sidney
#91. In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.
Barry Commoner
#92. War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
Francois Rabelais
#93. We tend not to use the biggest resource in healthcare - the patients themselves. So I'm trying to figure out possible uses for digital technologies like Facebook but also real-life social networks to improve healthcare provision.
Lucien Engelen
#94. The bread of such a nation (living godly) shall be in constant supply. Talking of abundance, provision, prosperity, surplus etc.
Sunday Adelaja
#95. Christ already made full provision for the abundant life through His atonement. It's now not up to Him to do, but you to receive what He's done!
Andrew Wommack
#96. Wherever the Lord makes a provision, we are quite sure that there was a need for it. No superfluities clutter the covenant of grace.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#97. It would also be strange to find in the midst of a catalog of the rights of individuals a provision securing to the states the right to maintain a designated "Militia." Dispassionate scholarship suggests quite strongly that the right of the people to keep and bear arms meant just that.
Antonin Scalia
#98. People want to watch whatever video they want to watch whenever they want to watch. If you provision your Internet infrastructure adequately, you can do that.
Bill Gates
#99. It's clearly established in terms of training, provision of bomb-making experts, training of people with respect to chemical and biological warfare capabilities, that al-Qaeda sent personnel to Iraq for training and so forth.
Dick Cheney
