Quotes about Providence

God does not defer his help any longer than fits his purpose. Unlike

We should always look to the Lord, that by His care we might be led to whatever lot in life He provides for us.

God's purpose remains God's secret, and he alone can justify his deeds among men. So

Each year, month, and day is governed by a new, a special, providence of God

The decree is dreadful indeed, I confess.

Unless God feed us daily, the largest accumulation of the necessaries of life will be of no avail.

As all future events are uncertain to us, so we hold them in suspense, as if they might incline to one side or the other. Yet in our hearts it nonetheless remains fixed that nothing will take place that the Lord has not previously foreseen.

But the secret counsel of God is something else. It is so deep and so high that no exploration can attain to it.

Unless God himself had by his election redeemed us from ruin, there would have been nothing but ruin to foresee.

I grant more: thieves and murderers and other evildoers are the instruments of divine providence, and the Lord himself uses these to carry out the judgments that he has determined with himself. Yet I deny that they can derive from this any excuse for their evil deeds. Why?

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.

Let not thy divining heart Forethink me any ill; Destiny may take thy part, And may thy fears fulfill.