Quotes about Providence

all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose.

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

We were sent here for something. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

As truly as God by His power once created, so truly by that same power must God every moment maintain.

Every providence is God's will; whatever happens, meet God in it in humble worship. Every precept is God's will; meet God in it with loving obedience. Every promise is God's will; meet God in it with full trust. A life in the will of God is rest and strength and blessing. [. . .] The will of God must first live in us, if it is to be done by us.

When God has begun the work of absolute surrender in you, and when God has accepted your surrender, then God holds Himself bound to care for it and to keep it. Will you believe that?

I had learned that every circumstance in life doesn't have to end happily for the Lord to provide a happy ending.

Often God will send us what we need in a package we don't want. Why? To let us know He's God and we cannot second-guess Him. We cannot search for answers merely with our heads; we must seek Him and His provision with our hearts. Scripture cannot be interpreted from our limited human mental understanding. There must be a breath of the Spirit of God. He alone gives wise counsel and correct application.

Christ, on the other hand, declares that every single one of God's creatures is under his hand and care, and that nothing happens by chance.

We ought to contemplate providence not as curious and fickle persons are wont to do but as a ground of confidence and excitement to prayer. When he informs us that the hairs of our head are all numbered it is not to encourage trivial speculations but to instruct us to depend on the fatherly care of God which is exercised over these frail bodies.

This being admitted, it is certain that not a drop of rain falls without the express command of God.

For Nazareth was ordained to be Christ's home, so that he might bear the name of Nazarene which was rightly his.