Quotes about Providence

I'll shower blessings on the pilgrims who come here, and give supper to those who arrive hungry." The devout mind goes back to those years in the wilderness when God gave water from the rock, manna from the ground and quail from the skies, and fashions a hope for abundant, eternal providence.

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?

The premise of the psalm for all work is that God works: "If GOD doesn't build the house... If GOD doesn't guard the city... " The condition if presupposes that God does work: he builds; he guards.

The Lord created me in the beginning of his ways, for his works; before the world he established me, in the beginning, before he made the earth, before he made the depths, before the mountains were settled,

Nothing was going to happen to any of them that was a surprise to their heavenly Father.

In learning how God speaks to us I've also learned that besides unusual coincidences

He who cares for the sparrows and numbers the hairs of our head, cannot possibly fail us.

We cannot always trace God's hand but we can always trust God's heart.

Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Acceptance is taking from God's hand absolutely anything He gives, looking into His face in trust and thanksgiving.

God is too good to be unkind, too wise to be mistaken; and when you cannot trace His hand, you can trust His heart.