"God has his hours and his delays. - J. A. Bengel

"I have lived, seen God's hand through a lifetime, and all was for best." - Robert Browning

"Providence is crowned by the end of it." - Stephen Charnock

"God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform;
He plants his footsteps in the sea,
And rides upon the storm."
- William Cowper

"The longer I live, the more faith I have in providence, and the less faith in my interpretation of providence." - Jeremiah Day

"Sometimes providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backwards." - John Flavel

"God's providences often seem to contradict his purposes, even when they are serving them." - Matthew Henry

"Everything that happens to me can help me along in my Christian life." - E. Stanley Jones

"Nothing is or can be accidental with God." - Henry W. Longfellow

"Our Lord God doeth work like a printer who setteth the letters backwards; we see and feel well his setting, but we shall see the print yonder - in the life to come." - Martin Luther

"God not only orders our steps; he orders our stops." - George Muller

"God rules and overrules." - William S. Plumer

"We need never fear that God will be dethroned, or over-reached or defeated." - William S. Plumer

"God's providence is all exercised through Christ." - Augustus H. Strong

"I do not know why God does some things, but I am convinced that nothing is accidental in his universe." - A. W. Tozer

"It is a sin as much to quarrel with God's providence as to deny his providence." - Thomas Watson

"If a Christian has to change his plans, it is always because God has something better in store." - Phil Webb

"All the world's thrones are occupied by rulers under God's authority." - anonymous

"The same God who controls the sun cares for the sparrow." - anonymous

"There are no accidents in the life of a Christian." - Rowland Bingham

"What God intends, he decrees; what God permits, he has foreseen." - Arthur C. Custance

"If our circumstances find us in God, we shall find God in our circumstances." - George Muller

"Providence is the perpetuity and continuance of creation." - Richard Sibbes

"Not a drop of rain falls in vain." - John Trapp

"God is to be trusted when his providences seem to run contrary to his promises." - Thomas Watson

"God is not defeated by human failure." - William J. C. White

"God gives, but man must open his hand." - Proverb (German)

"God gives the milk but not the pail." - Proverb (German)

"I firmly believe in divine Providence. Without belief in Providence I think I should go crazy. Without God the earth would be a maze without a clue." - Woodrow Wilson

"God is to be trusted when His providences seem to run contrary to His promise. God promised David to give him the crown, to make him king; but providence turns contrary to His promise; David was pursued by Saul, was in danger of his life; but all this while it was David's duty to trust God. The Lord doth oftentimes, by cross providence, bring to pass His promise. God promised Paul the lives of all that were with him in the ship; but now the providence of God seems to run quite contrary to His promise; the winds blow, the ship splits and breaks in pieces; and thus God fulfilled His promise; upon the broken pieces of the ship, they all come safe to shore. Trust God when providences seem to run quite contrary to promises." - Thomas Watson

"Grace makes the promise and providence the payment." - John Flavel

"God from eternity, decrees or permits all things that come to pass, and perpetually upholds, directs and governs all creatures and all events; yet so as not in any wise to be the author or approver of sin nor to destroy the free agency and responsibility of intelligent creatures." - James Boyce

"Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence." - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

"God never does anything to you that isn't for you." - Elizabeth Elliott

"I have lived a long time and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see that God governs in the affairs of men." - Benjamin Franklin

"That power which erring men call chance." - John Milton

"We serve a gracious Master who knows how to overrule even our mistakes to His glory and our own advantage." - John Newton

"God writes straight with crooked lines." - Spanish proverb

"Man proposes but God disposes." - Thomas á Kempis

"A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly problems. It is almost equally true that a clear and full apprehension of the universal providence of God is the solution of most theological problems." - B. B. Warfield

"We are immoral until our work on earth is done." - George Whitefield

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