Divine Providence Quotes

“Please do not break your heart over the withering of a dream you once held, that never became yours! After all, the shattered dream could have very well been a nightmare and not a dream at all, you wouldn't really know because you didn't have it yet! Let the sparks fade, let the flame dim and die, you'll never know it wasn't poison.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“It would have been a help if at some time Baptist preacher, resting his forearms on the pulpit and hunching his shoulders, had said People neither get what they deserve nor deserve what they get. The gentle and the trusting are trampled on. The rich man usually forces his way through the eye of the needle, and there is little or no point in putting your faith in Divine Providence. . . . On the other hand, how could any preacher, Baptist or otherwise, say this?”
― William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow

“Don’t try to create some kind of shape for your life as if you are shearing it with a pair of clippers. Don’t prune down your own life into the shape you think it should be. Don’t be a bonsai, be a mighty oak.”
― Mooji, Vaster Than Sky, Greater Than Space

“God helps those who help themselves.”
― Algernon Sidney, Discourses Concerning Government

“After witnessing the inauguration ceremonies, I am compelled to state how deeply grateful and infinitely thankful and eternally blessed I am to and by God for the privilege of being born and for living out my life in this amazing country- The United States of America”
― R. Alan Woods, The Journey Is the Destination: A Book of Quotes With Commentaries

“The Apostle “Paul’s antidote for wimpy Christians is weighty doctrine. . . .everything that exists—including evil—is ordained by a holy and all-wise God to make the glory of Christ shine more brightly. We don’t make God. He makes us. We don’t decide what he is going to be like. He decides what he is going to be like. He decides what we are going to be like. He created the universe, and it has the meaning he gives it, not the meaning we give it. If we give it a meaning different from his, we are fools. . . . our eternal joy and strength and holiness depend on the solidity of this worldview putting strong fiber into the spine of our faith. Wimpy worldviews make wimpy Christians. And wimpy Christians won’t survive the days ahead.”
― John Piper, Spectacular Sins: And Their Global Purpose in the Glory of Christ

“Sometimes what we think we need isn’t what we need at all, and what gets thrown in for good measure is that which fills our hearts.”
― Philip Gulley, Home to Harmony

“I think this goes more to the idea of 'relentless irony' than 'divine providence.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“Whether you want to believe it or not, the truth is that in your humanhood you could not have come to a spiritual teaching. ... You are on the Path now only because at some period of your life you were inwardly touched, and you found yourself turned in a direction which you could not have taken by yourself, ...”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, Beyond Words and Thoughts

“There is no such thing as a coincidence and there are no accidents in God's creation.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“That is true for everything. God provides your sustenance. Whatever is meant to come to you, you
will receive.”
― Muzaffer Ozak al-Jerrahi al-Halveti

“Sometimes we need divine will to protect us from our free will. Divine intervention is never a heavenly punishment or transcendental prank. It is a safeguard for our highest good.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“Where men see flaws, grace sees perfection.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson , Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Realize that if you leave Him for just a moment, your most cruel enemies will seize you, but if you follow him, you will be received, emblazoned with the medals of the victor, into the kingdom of Heaven.”
― Jean Baptiste Saint-Jure, Trustful Surrender To Divine Providence [Leather Bound]

“His failure is not failure whom God leads;
Through all the slow mysterious march goes on:
An immutable Power has made this mutable world;
A self-fulfilling transcendence treads man’s road;
The driver of the soul upon its path,
It knows its steps, its way is inevitable
And how shall the end be vain when God is guide?

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― Sri Aurobindo, Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol

“But thou hast come and all will surely change:
I shall feel the World-Mother in thy golden limbs
And hear her wisdom in thy sacred voice.

The child of the Void shall be reborn in God.

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― Sri Aurobindo, Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol

“There is no place too deep and too dark
to conceal a person from the eye of destiny.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Burn Like Fire