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Providence Quotes by John Flavel
- How often has providence convinced its observers, upon a sober recollection of the events of their lives, that if the Lord had left them to…
- If God has given you but a small portion of the world, yet if you are godly He has promised never to forsake you (Heb.…
- All the dark, intricate, puzzling providences at which we were sometimes so offended...we shall [one day] see to be to us, as the difficult passage…
- Providence so orders the case, that faith and prayer come between our wants and supplies, and the goodness of God may be the more magnified…
- Ah, did we but rightly understand what the demerit of sin is, we would rather admire the bounty of God than complain of the straithandedness…
- Look around in the world, and you may see some in every place who are objects of pity, bereaved by sad accidents of all the…
- When the world smiles upon us, and we have got a warm nest, how do we prophesy of rest and peace in those acquisitions, thinking…
- Let us consider and marvel that ever this great and blessed God should be so much concerned, as you have heard He is in all…
- You may look upon some providences once and again, and see little or nothing in them, but look "seven times," that is, meditate often upon…
- When our needs are permitted to grow to an extremity, and all visible hopes fail, then to have relief given wonderfully enhances the price of…
- Sometimes God makes use of instruments for good to His people, who designed nothing but evil and mischief to them. Thus Joseph's brethren were instrumental…
- [Providences] often puzzle and entangle our thoughts, but bring them to the Word, and your duty will be quickly manifested. "Until I went into the…
- Providence is like a curious piece of tapestry made of a thousand shreds, which, single, appear useless, but put together, they represent a beautiful history…
- Providence is wiser than you, and you may be confident it has suited all things better to your eternal good than you could do had…
- It is the duty of the saints, especially in times of straights, to reflect upon the performances of Providence for them in all the states…
- Grace makes the promise and providence the payment.
- The Providence of God is like Hebrew words-it can be read only backwards.
- Some providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backwards.
More Providence Quotes
- I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence,… — John Adams
- There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America. — Otto von Bismarck
- I knew I had to get out of Boston and stop making movies there, at least for one movie, otherwise no one… — Ben Affleck
- I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with… — Donald Cargill
- What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children? — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can… — Horace Mann
- Chance is the providence of adventurers. — Laurence Sterne
- When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and… — Henry Ward Beecher
- Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid. — Edward McKendree Bounds
- I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions… — Richard Rumbold
- If, unable to solve the mysteries of Providence, we plunge into Atheism, we only increase a thousand fold the darkness by which… — Charles Hodge