Providence Quotes - Page 24

• That which is not allotted the hand cannot reach; what is allotted you will find wherever you may be.

  Saadi

  Hands, May

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• Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, creator of the Universe. That he governs it by his Providence. That he ought to be worshiped. That the most acceptable service we render him is doing good to his other children. That the soul of Man is immortal, and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Children, Believe, Men

  Benjamin Franklin (1905). “The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Written by Himself. Now First Edited from Original Manuscripts and from His Printed Correspondence and Other Writings”

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• How dark are all the ways of god to man!

  Euripides

  Dark, Men, Way

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• The man whom heaven helps has friends enough.

  Euripides

  Men, Heaven, Helping

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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• God never sends the mouth but he sendeth meat.

  John Heywood

  Meat, Mouths

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• You must realize that it is the ordinary way of God's dealings with us that our ideas do not work out speedily and efficiently as we would like them to. The reason for this is not only the loving wisdom of God, but also the fact that our acts have to fit into a great complex pattern that we cannot possibly understand. I have learned over the years that Providence is always a whole lot wiser than any of us, and that there are always not only good reasons, but the very best reasons for the delays and blocks that often seem to us so frustrating and absurd.

  Thomas Merton

  Block, Years, Ideas

  Thomas Merton (2011). “The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters”, p.862, Macmillan

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• I believe in God as I believe in my friends, because I feel the breath of His affection, feel His invisible and intangible hand, drawing me, leading me, grasping me; because I possess an inner consciousness of a particular providence and of a universal mind that marks out for me the course of my own destiny.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Believe, Destiny, Drawing

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• The gods give to mortals not everything at the same time.

  Homer

  Giving, Mortals

  "Iliad". Epic poem by Homer, c. 750 BC.

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• Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  God, Doe, Favors

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• Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Humility, Looks, Remember

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• Through the humbling dispensations of Divine Providence, men are sometimes fitted for his service.

  John Woolman

  Men, Sometimes, Divine

  John Woolman (1838). “A Journal of the Life and Travels of John Woolman: In the Service of the Gospel”, p.100

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• When I took off from Providence, my only professional aspiration was what it had always been: I wanted to be a sportscaster. By the time I landed in the desert, I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to be a writer.

  Mike Greenberg

  Trying, Desert, Aspiration

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• Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Perseverance, Challenges, Appreciated

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• In the doctrine of Providence, we have a specific Christian confession exclusively possible through faith in Jesus Christ. This faith is no general, vague notion of Providence. It has a concrete focus: ‘If God is for us, who is against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely give us all things?’ (Rom.8:31, 32).

  G. C. Berkouwer

  Christian, Jesus, Son

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• God brings you to places, among people, and into certain conditions to accomplish a definite purpose through the intercession of the Spirit in you. Your part in intercessory prayer is not to agonize over how to intercede, but to use the everyday circumstances and people God puts around you by His providence to bring them before His throne, and to allow the Spirit in you the opportunity to intercede for them. In this way God is going to touch the whole world with His saints.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Opportunity, People

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.73, Discovery House

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• Perhaps out inactivity is not so much waiting on God as it is an expression of the fear of man, the love of the praise of man, and disbelief in God's providence.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Men, Expression, Waiting

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• Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay Charles Caleb Colton.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Gold, Noble, Affliction

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• Neutrality is no favorite with Providence, for we are so formed that it is scarcely possible for us to stand neuter in our hearts, although we may deem it prudent to appear so in our actions

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Heart, Neutrality, May

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.170

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• For health and the constant enjoyment of life, give me a keen and ever present sense of humor; it is the next best thing to an abiding faith in providence.

  George Barrell Cheever

  Humor, Abiding Faith, Giving

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• The tidal wave of God's providence is carrying liberty throughout the globe.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Liberty, Wave, Globes

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• In all God's providences, it is good to compare His word and His works together; for we shall find a beautiful harmony between them, and that they mutually illustrate each other.

  Matthew Henry

  Beautiful, Working Together, Harmony

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 281), 1895.

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• The belief in free-will is not in the least incompatible with the belief in Providence, provided you do not restrict the Providence to fulminating nothing but fatal decrees.

  William James

  Belief, Free Will, Decree

  William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.180, Courier Corporation

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• There are no accidents, all things have a deep and calculated purpose; sometimes the methods employed by Providence seem strange and incongruous, but we have only to be patient and wait for the result: then we recognize that no others would have answered the purpose, and we are rebuked and humbled.

  Mark Twain

  Waiting, Purpose, Strange

  Mark Twain, John S. Tuckey (1972). “Mark Twain's Fables of Man”, p.189, Univ of California Press

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• Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Air, Sea, Land

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.8

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• We'll therefore relish with content, Whate'er kind providence has sent, Nor aim beyond our pow'r; For, if our stock be very small, 'Tis prudent to enjoy it all, Nor lose the present hour.

  Nathaniel Cotton

  Contentment, Prudent, Kind

  Nathaniel Cotton, “The Fire-Side”

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