Top Providence Quotes

When you are at your lowest God is getting ready to take you to your highest.

The English Puritans were obsessed with the idea of providence, and that word is more ominous to them than it sounds to us. It means care, but it also means control. It does not just mean that God wil...

Providence Definition

(n.) The act of providing or preparing for future use or application; a making ready; preparation.

(n.) Foresight; care; especially, the foresight and care which God manifests for his creatures; hence, God himself, regarded as exercising a constant wise prescience.

(n.) A manifestation of the care and superintendence which God exercises over his creatures; an event ordained by divine direction.

(n.) Prudence in the management of one's concerns; economy; frugality.

The human mind is a lucky little local, passing accident which was totally unforeseen, and condemned to disappear with this earth and to recommence perhaps here or elsewhere the same or different with...

And then, that feeling comes again when you seem invincible and totally awesome. You simply can't hold it in and you just smile to everyone you come across; infectiously, they have no choice but to sm...

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 kil...

Every ideal comes from us as do all the amenities of life, in order to make our existence as simple reproducers, for which divine Providence solely intended us, less monotonous and less hard.

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 kil...

Providence knows best.

The loveliest gifts sometimes come wrapped in the ugliest paper.

While God is not the author of evil and He never prompts or condones sin, nothing occurs without His sovereign oversight. Others may choose to do evil deeds and God's people may suffer in the short te...

When you are wronged and your heart and feelings are hardened, do not be distressed, for this has happened providentially; but be glad and reject the thoughts that arise within you, knowing that if th...

Let us hope...that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.

Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a specialprovidence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will benow; if it be not now, yet it will come: thereadiness i...

Screwing up is hardly a major mistake. Sometimes your wrong choices bring you to the right places.

In the wilderness, God's covenant people struggled with a choice between feeding their bellies and nourishing their souls. God provided manna--a breadlike food that fell to the ground during the night...

Fate determines a man's beginning. The man, by choice, determines his end.

A golden opportunity may turn into silver if you wait too long to take advantage of it.

When God issues a call to us, it is always a holy call. The vocation of dying is a sacred vocation. To understand that is one of the most important lessons a Christian can ever learn. When the summons...

Fear not but trust in Providence Wherever thou may'st be.

What a lovely thing a rose is!He walked past the couch to the open window and held up the drooping stalk of a moss-rose, looking down at the dainty blend of crimson and green. It was a new phase of hi...