Quotes about Providence

Jesus wants us to trust him to take care of all our yesterdays and tomorrows.

You may not get what you want, but God always gives you what you need.

Day by day we are given not what we want but what we need. Sometimes it is a feast and sometimes...swept crumbs, but by faith we believe it is enough.

We must understand then, that even though God doesn't always give us what we want, He always gives us what we need for our salvation.

Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want

I believe firmly in God's control in life.

In Jewish history there are no coincidences.

We have this consolation, that it was the evident dispensation of God which brought us to this country; and still further, that if the world was all before us, where to choose our place of rest, we should not desire to leave Burmah.

You cannot always depend on prayers to be answered the way you want them answered but you can always depend on God. God, the loving Father often denies us those things which in the end would prove harmful to us. Every boy wants a revolver at age four, and no father yet has ever granted that request. Why should we think God is less wise? Someday we will thank God not only for what He gave us, but also for that which He refused.

Our Father's commitment to us, His children, is unwavering. Indeed He softens the winters of our lives, but He also brightens our summers.

See the hand of God in all events, and thereby become reconciled to His dispensations.

So the Lord was with Joseph, and Joseph was a lucky fellow' was one of Tyndale's great phrases from his translation of Genesis.