Providence Quotes

“No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States.”

“The providence of God is like a Hebrew word; it can only be read backwards.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“There are two things I am most thankful for in my life; the first is that God never gives me all I ask for, and the second is that He always gives me all I need.”

“God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.”

“God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.”

“Providence has a greater hand in great events than is usually ascribed to it.”

“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.”

“Man proposes, but God disposes.”