Quotes about Providence

No one can act outside of God's sovereign will or against it. Centuries ago, Augustine said, "Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen: he either permits it to happen, or he brings it about himself."

God did not simply create and then walk away. He constantly sustains that which He created.

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. Note the absolute terms: constant care, absolute rule, all creation.

They find it difficult to accept that both calamities and good things come from God.

Under God, however, all things are without exception fully controlled—despite all appearances to the contrary.

Randomness, luck, chance, fate. This is modern man's answer to the age-old question, "Why?

While it is certainly true that God's love for us does not protect us from pain and sorrow, it is also true that all occasions of pain and sorrow are under the absolute control of God.

Often unwilling to accept the fact that God is working because they don't understand how He is working, they have chosen to substitute the doctrine of chance for the doctrine of divine providence.

He is sovereign over the nations where every attempt is made to stamp out true Christianity. In all of these areas, we can and must trust God.

God is sovereign over the nations. He is sovereign over the officials of our own government in all their actions as they affect us, directly or indirectly. He is sovereign over the officials of government in lands where our brothers and sisters in Christ suffer for their faith in Him. And He is sovereign over the nations where every attempt is made to stamp out true Christianity. In all of these areas, we can and must trust God.

But when we complain about the weather, we are actually complaining against God who sent us our weather.

But rather that He works in His mysterious way through their wills to accomplish His purposes.