Christian Quote by John Flavel

“My dear lady, in my experience of ill-doing, Providence leaves the work of conviction and chastisement to us mortals—and the process is often fraught…

— Agatha Christie

“Once again was it proved that the designs of Providence are impenetrable and that the sinner, climbing out of the pit of his filthiness,…

— Gabriel Chevallier

“what the Scriptures teach unsettled by their encounter with the book of Providence. This is often the case when it comes to the early…

— Mark Dever

More than once I was tormented by the thought that if Providence had put me in the place of the incapable of criminal incompetents…

— Adolf Hitler

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred...unforeseen…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Providence is wiser than you, and you may be confident it has suited all things better to your eternal good than you could do…

— John Flavel

Probably Providence has implanted peevishness and ill-temper in sick and old persons, in compassion to the friends or relations who are to survive; as…

— Laurence Sterne

I was for some time quite beside myself and could not believe that Providence could have required the presence of this indispensable man in…

— Joseph Haydn

“In the eyes of the restless and the longing, Providence often appears to be worse than inscrutable: an unreliable Omnipotence given to haphazard whimsies…

— Booth Tarkington

Providence is wonderfully intricate. Ah! You want always to see through Providence, do you not? You never will, I assure you. You have not…

— Charles Spurgeon

“A providence is shaping our ends; a plan is developing in our lives; a supremely wise and loving Being is making all things work…

— F.B. Meyer

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

— Wilhelm von Humboldt