Jesus kept it simple. The lesson wasn’t complicated. ‘I speak; you believe My word; your son will be fine.’ We complicate what God has made simple by seeing the world through human eyes. We want...

You don’t question Providence. If you can’t have the reality, a dream is just as good.

Confidence is providence

Not a whit, we defy augury: there’s a specialprovidence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,’tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will benow; if it be not...

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

(Providence) played with a great sense of urgency from the start, and we were kind of dipping our toes in the water to see what the temperature was. But we woke up at that point...

God never calls His people to accomplish anything without promising to supply their every need.

God schedules a birthday, not man.

Before, I suspected I might not amount to anything, and now I now I won’t, so at least it takes away the wearisome burden of delusive hope

I dare you to try and take this away from me.

INSECTIVORA, n.””See,”” cries the chorus of admiring preachers,””How Providence provides for all His creatures!””””His care,”” the gnat said, “”even the insects follows: For us He has provided wrens and swallows.”” –Sempen Railey

I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils

In the wilderness, God’s covenant people struggled with a choice between feeding their bellies and nourishing their souls. God provided manna–a breadlike food that fell to the ground during the night–to sustain the wandering Israelites...

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...

We are extremely pleased to bring these operations into the Dollar Thrifty corporate fold. Thrifty Providence is a key addition for the Company’s corporate network. In addition to being strategically located in the Northeast corridor,...

God doesn’t put that much prep into something that is insignificant.

What a lovely thing a rose is!”He walked past the couch to the open window and held up the drooping stalk of a moss-rose, looking down at the dainty blend of crimson and green. It...

Fate determines a man’s beginning. The man, by choice, determines his end.

To require God to prove that He is able and willing to fulfill His promises would be proof positive that one does not trust Him.

We would either have a silent, a soft, a perfumed cross, sugared and honeyed with the consolations of Christ, or we faint; and providence must either brew a cup of gall and wormwood, mastered in...

For a thousand years,and then a thousand more…I will love you.

Screwing up is hardly a major mistake. Sometimes your wrong choices bring you to the right places.

It helped out a lot that I was in Providence. I got to know some guys, the coaches, and the style of play. That makes it a lot easier than it is for some of...

Providence knows best.

The crisis of physical hunger is essentially a crisis of faith. What or whom will you trust to meet your most basic needs? Will you trust the God who made human bodies, or will you...

When God issues a call to us, it is always a holy call. The vocation of dying is a sacred vocation. To understand that is one of the most important lessons a Christian can ever...

My life is but a weavingBetween my God and me.I cannot choose the colorsHe weaveth steadily.Oft’ times He weaveth sorrow;And I in foolish prideForget He sees the upperAnd I the underside.Not ’til the loom is...

If you have money, power, and status today, it is due to the century and place in which you were born, to your talents and capacities and health, none of which you earned. In short,...

Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will ‘turn the necessity to glorious gain.

Each meeting occurs at the precise moment for which it was meant. Usually, when it will have the greatest impact on our lives.

While God is not the author of evil and He never prompts or condones sin, nothing occurs without His sovereign oversight. Others may choose to do evil deeds and God’s people may suffer in the...

Go where thou wilt, thou canst not go out of thy Father’s ground.

North Providence is young. They’re inexperienced. They have some goal scorers. But I think we have the skating advantage. They’re obviously a decent team or they wouldn’t be in the playoffs. We don’t take any...

Now we have to battle with our backs against the wall. Providence is rolling and you know how hard it is to win up in Maine.

Perceiving the world as well designed and thus the product of a designer, and even seeing divine providence in the daily affairs of life, may be the product of a brain adapted to finding patterns...

If a man were to sow a field, he could not excuse his neglect by saying that it would be useless to sow unless God caused the seed to grow. He would not be justified...

The banana flavour of his accidental conception, and the banana theme of his accidental death, now all seemed to conspire against him and rather suggest the universe, Mr Fate or whoever did have some sort...

Nothing is easier to us who pass our time in the great school of Providence than to l’arn its lessons.

A good leader must have the wisdom to know when a pursuit is no longer worthy of being pursued – a time when the losses of the present must be accepted – and cut –...

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 you been left to your own option.

Providence then – and this is what is most important to grasp – is not the same thing as a universal teleology. To believe in divine and unfailing providence is not to burden one’s conscience...

Mark to yourself the gradual way in which you have been prepared for, and are now led by an irresistible necessity to enter upon your great labour.

God planted the seeds of all the trees,” continued Hetty, after a moment’s pause, “and you see to what a height and shade they have grown! So it is with the Bible. You may read...

The mere telling of how a need was met is often like telling of a need, which is asking crookedly instead of straight out. But this much I will say–with every fresh need has come...

Church History is the record of God’s gracious, wonderful and mighty deeds, showing how by his Spirit and Word he rules his Church and conquers the world.

And so sovereign Providence has often produced a remarkable effect–evil men making other evil men good. For some, when they think they suffer injustice at the hands of the worst of men, burn with hatred...

When you are wronged and your heart and feelings are hardened, do not be distressed, for this has happened providentially; but be glad and reject the thoughts that arise within you, knowing that if they...

In a clock, stop but one wheel and you stop every wheel, because they are dependent upon one other. So when God has ordered a thing for the present to be thus and thus, how...

When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning-rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with the enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it as an impious attempt to defeat the will of God. For, as all...

God’s fundamental goal for believers is not to protect us from harm or suffering, to make us comfortable, or to benefit from our service. You can biblically sum up God’s primary aim for your whole...