Providence Quotes

“God's providence is a book of which we can read but a page at a time.”

“Providence is a soft pillow for a good man's head, but a rack and a torture for a bad man's conscience.”

“Commit whatever grieves thee into the gracious hands of Him who never leaves thee.”

“Through waves and clouds and storms, He gently clears thy way.”

“If we are slaves it is by the permission of God.”

“The Lord's people had been for many years crying unto him in their prayers, 'When wilt thou come?'”

“Duty is ours; events are God's.”

“He who adds to what he has, will keep off bright-eyed hunger.”

“Man proposes, but God disposes.”

“Man proposes, but God disposes.”

“God has a plan, and He's working His plan out in history.”

“What you and I might rate as an absolute disaster, God may rate as a perfect providence.”

“As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes national sins by national calamities.”

“The will of God will not take you where the grace of God cannot keep you.”

“Without a God, without a world governed by goodness, without a providence, and without an immortality, the whole of morality falls to the ground.”

“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too.”

“God is always doing 10,000 things in your life, and you may be aware of three of them.”

“God is usually on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.”

“Providence moves in a mysterious way. The gods weave misfortunes for men, that poets may have something to sing of.”

“Duties are ours; events are God's. This removes an infinite burden from the shoulders of a miserable, tempted, dying creature.”