God will not lightly or easily lose His people. 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.
— John Bunyan
Providence
There are three things in providence: God’s foreknowing, God’s determining, and God’s directing all things to their periods and events.
— Thomas Watson
The Providence of God
The almighty and everywhere present power of God; whereby, as it were by his hand, he upholds and governs heaven, earth, and all creatures; so that herbs and grass, rain and drought, fruitful and barren years, meat and drink, health and sickness, riches and poverty, yea, and all things come, not by chance, but by his fatherly hand.
— Heidelberg Catechism
God’s Works of Providence
My soul, bless the Lord! the Lord is most great, With glory arrayed, majestic his state; The light is his garment, the skies are his shade, And over the waters his courts he has laid.
— From Psalm 104 (The Psalter)
Providence
How often has providence convinced its observers, upon a sober recollection of the events of their lives, that if the Lord had left them to their own counsels they had as often been their own tormentors, if not executioners!
— John Flavel