#providence

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

— C.S. Lewis

#providence #trials #trials

IMPROVIDENCE The other lives I might have led All now might as well be Dead. Survived by no one. Barren, without issue of any sort: This withered bud, failed In art and love. With no time left To change my course. But time enough for infinite remorse. ↗

— John Tottenham

#poetry #change

The longer I live, the more faith I have in Providence, and the less faith in my interpretation of Providence. ↗

— Jeremiah Day

#i #interpretation #less #live #longer

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 seek your own way? (Deuteronomy 8:1-3) ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#faith #god #jesus-christ #providence #faith

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 to see in order to believe and presume that our limitations are His. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#believe #faith #god #jesus-christ #prayer

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. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#god #providence #faith

God schedules a birthday, not man. ↗

— Robert A. Bradley

#calendar #children #hurry #life #patience

I can’t have a life without you. I don’t want a life without you. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#providence #life

You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of the human race. ↗

— J. Reuben Clark

#blessings #care #chosen #committed #favored

About the twenty-third year of my age, I had many fresh and heavenly openings, in respect to the care and providence of the Almighty over his creatures in general, and over man as the most noble amongst those which are visible. ↗

— John Woolman

#age #almighty #amongst #care #creatures