Quotes about Providence
A door that seems to stand open must be a man's size, or it is not the door that Providence means for him.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Counting your chickens before they hatch is only wise if God has told you how many will survive.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.
— Karl Barth
I would much rather be the trusting child of a rich Father, than a beggar at the door of worldly men.
— Corrie Ten Boom
No man has a more perfect reliance on the alwise and powerful dispensations of the Supreme Being than I have, nor thinks His aid more necessary.
— George Washington
What I have given, I can take away and restore when it pleases Me. What I give remains Mine, and thus when I take it away I take nothing that is yours, for every good gift and every perfect gift is Mine.
— Thomas a Kempis
2. Boast not thyself in thy riches if thou hast them, nor in thy friends if they be powerful, but in God, who giveth all things,
— Thomas a Kempis
I answer that, Each man has an angel guardian appointed to him. This rests upon the fact that the guardianship of angels belongs to the execution of Divine providence concerning men.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.
— St. Basil
God overrules the evil intent of humans to accomplish His ultimate good.
— Norman Geisler
I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.
— Laurence Sterne
Trust in nothing but in Providence and your own efforts. Never separate the two, like the heathen waggoner. Constancy in love is a good thing, but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.
— Charles Dickens