Quotes about Providence
But note also the twofold objective of God's providence: His own glory and the good of His people. These two objectives are never antithetical; they are always in harmony with each other. God never pursues His glory at the expense of the good of His people, nor does He ever seek our good at the expense of His glory. He has designed His eternal purpose so that His glory and our good are inextricably bound together.
— Jerry Bridges
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.
— Jerry Bridges
Matthew Henry says that to walk with God is "to set God always before us, and to act as those that are always under his eye. It is to live a life of communion with God both in ordinances and providences. It is to make God's word our rule and his glory our end in all our actions."
— Jerry Bridges
The fact is we do not know what God is doing through a particular set of circumstances or events.
— Jerry Bridges
We are just as dependent on God when the physician diagnoses a routine illness and prescribes a successful medication. We are just as dependent when the paycheck comes regularly and all our material needs are met.
— Jerry Bridges
God's providence clearly affirms that we can trust God.
— Jerry Bridges
God not only created the universe but that He upholds and sustains it day by day, hour by hour.
— Jerry Bridges
God sustains you and me: "He himself gives all men life and breath and everything else.... `For in him we live and move and have our being"' (Acts 17:25,28). He supplies our daily food (see 2 Corinthians 9:10). Our times are in His hands (see Psalm 31:15). Every breath we breathe is a gift from God, every bite of food we eat is given to us from His hand, every day we live is determined by Him.
— Jerry Bridges
Details are important, and God is just as sovereign over the details as He is over the so-called "big picture.
— Jerry Bridges
The beginning, directs and orchestrates millions of events and circumstances every day.
— Jerry Bridges
But God never allows people to make decisions about us that undermine His plan for us.
— Jerry Bridges
His agenda for our lives that God will guard, protect, and advance. We must learn to live by His agenda if we are to trust Him.
— Jerry Bridges