Grace Quotes

(From Octavius Winslow's, "The Banquet") We lose much blessing and God much honor, by not more simply and implicitly living upon His providential care. Those who see God's goodness in all their temporal supplies; who recognize His superintending and molding hand, ordering and shaping all the events; the most minute of their personal history; shall never be left without some marked and unmistakable evidence of God's care and bountifulness in providing for their temporal needs, and His wisdom and faithfulness in ordering and directing all their temporal concerns. Be, then, a close student of God's providence. Seek a dislodgment from your mind of that atheism which would exclude God from the government of the world, and from the events and circumstances of our individual history. The terms 'chance', 'accident', 'contingency', as they are employed by the world in connection with the events of human life, should be entirely expunged from the Christian's vocabulary. They belong solely to the dictionary of the atheist, and should never pass the lips of the believer. It is the privilege of the believing mind, to see God's hand in the most infinitesimal incident of individual life. Tossed amid the waves of second causes, faith often loses its anchorage on God in dark and mysterious calamities; and the believing and devout mind, thus for the moment loosed from its divine fastening, drifts away amid the breakers and the shoals of doubt and perplexity; and but for the restraining power and the restoring grace of the Divine Shepherd would become an utter wreck.