The axle of the wheels of the chariot of Providence is Infinite Love, and Gracious Wisdom is the perpetual charioteer. You never will, I assure you. ... 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, ...” “That is true for everything. There is no such thing as "chance," "luck" or "accident" in the Christian's journey through this world. The axle of the wheels of the chariot of Providence is Infinite Love, and Gracious Wisdom is the perpetual charioteer. By the all-powerful dispensations of Providence I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me yet escaped unhurt, although death was leveling my companions on every side of me! Can that be laudable, which God calls abominable? Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid. Happiness is governed by law. The boundless stores of Providence are engaged for the support of the believer. We know that all things work together for good to them that love God; hence I infer that losses, disappointments, ill tongues, loss of friends, houses or country, are God's workmen, set on work to work out good to you, out of everything that befalleth you. 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! 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. We don’t make God. The God who knows you best knows the best for you.

Saints' Quotes. They therefore labored to persuade themselves that what they had no mind for did not exist. Divine Providence Quotes Quotes tagged as "divine-providence" Showing 1-10 of 10 “Please do not break your heart over the withering of a dream you once held, that never became yours! Wealth and poverty alike come from Him. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. And His will is always directed to our good. .

“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.” ― John Flavel, The Mystery of Providence tags: christianity, god, god-s-plans, providence 17 likes It is true that we may desire much more.

.everything that exists—including evil—is ordained by a holy and all-wise God to make the glory of Christ shine more brightly. God, who is liberal in all his other gifts, shows us, by the wise economy of his providence, how circumspect we ought to be in the management of our time, for he never gives us two moments together. He rises by lifting others. I never doubted, for instance, the existence of the Deity; that He made the world, and governed it by His Providence; that the most acceptable service of God was the doing good to man; that our souls are immortal; and that all crime will be punished, and virtue rewarded, either here or hereafter. God gives us the ingredients for our daily bread, but he expects us to do the baking! God has great things in store for His people; they ought to have large expectations. I will charge my soul to believe and wait for Him, and will follow His providence, and not go before it, nor stay behind it. God is a God of order. . You have not eyes good enough. Providence has at all times been my only dependence, for all other resources seemed to have failed us. The state of the world is more humiliating to our reason than the doctrines of the Gospel. He has provided well for us: blood to wash us in; a Priest to pray for us, that we may be made to persevere; and, in case we foully fall, an Advocate to plead our cause. God desires to show His power through your storm, but is your lack of faith keeping Him from doing so? We don’t decide what he is going to be like. There is more stuff and substance of good in the Lord's promises than the sharpest sighted saint did or can perceive; for when we have followed the promise, to find out all the truth which is in it, we meet with a cloud of unsearchable riches, and are forced to leave it there. You want to see how it can bring good to the soul; you may be enabled in a little time; but you cannot see it now; you must believe it. Thus Joseph's brethren were instrumental to his advancement in that very thing in which they designed his ruin (Gen. 50:20). He decides what we are going to be like. Can that be becoming, of which God has set forth the deformity? Honor God by trusting Him. He has entailed upon His estate of Providence a perpetual charge of a daily portion for us, and He has promised that one day we shall clearly perceive that the estate itself has been well-farmed on our behalf and has always been ours. As every mercy is a drop obtained from the ocean of God's goodness, so every affliction is a drachm weighed out in the wisdom of God's providence. 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 of Providence.


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