Inspirational Quotes on Providence

“He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.”

“Providence has relation essentially to man. It is for man's sake that Providence makes of things whatever it pleases; it is for man's sake that it supersedes the authority and reality of a law otherwise omnipotent. … [W]e nowhere read that God, for the sake of brutes, became a brute – the very idea of this is, in the eyes of religion, impious and ungodly; or that God ever performed a miracle for the sake of animals or plants. On the contrary, we read that a poor fig-tree, because it bore no fruit at a time when it could not bear it, was cursed, purely in order to give man an example of the power of faith over Nature[.]”

“Providence is a privilege of man. It expresses the value of man, in distinction from other natural beings … ; it exempts him from the connection of the universe. Providence is the conviction of man of the infinite value of his existence, - a conviction in which he renounces faith in the reality of external things; it is the idealism of religion.”

“Belief in Providence is belief in a power to which all things stand at command to be used according to its pleasure, in opposition to which all the power of reality is nothing. Providence cancels the laws of Nature; … it is the same unlimited, all-powerful will, that called the world into existence out of nothing. … [T]he only proof of Providence is miracle. … [M]iracle … implies … that the miracle worker is the same as he who brought forth all things by his mere will – God the Creator.”

“Only good things come from God's hands. He never gives you more than you can bear. Every burden prepares you for eternity.”

“A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles.”

“Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.”

“God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.”

“Ravenous birds and the standards of the Roman army, ready to devour a people, reprobated and given up, as a dead carcass, by Providence.”

“I never was without without some religious principles. I never doubted, for instance, the existence of the Deity; that He made the world, and governed it by His Providence; that the most acceptable service of God was the doing good to man; that our souls are immortal; and that all crime will be punished, and virtue rewarded, either here or hereafter.”

“We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.”

“The mystery of the universe, and the meaning of God's world, are shrouded in hopeless obscurity, until we learn to feel that all laws suppose a lawgiver, and that all working involves a Divine energy.”

“The vision of the Divine Presence ever takes the form which our circumstances most require.”

“It is true that we may desire much more. But let us use what we have, and God will give us more.”

“Prayer is the way and means God has appointed for the communication of the blessings of His goodness to His people.”

“I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.”