We should use the means that God offers and the gifts of His providence not out of a lack of trust, which turns the heart away from God, or out of trust in creatures, but out of obedience.

Caspar Olevianus, An Exposition of the Apostles’ Creed, 47.

The nature of God is succinctly and accurately expressed in that description by Moses in Exodus 34[:6-7], “Jehovah, Jehovah God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, etc.”

Caspar Olevianus, An Exposition of the Apostles’ Creed, 23.

We become impatient because we focus on the creatures that oppose us rather than on God, who does these things to us not as our adversary but as our Father.

Caspar Olevianus, An Exposition of the Apostles’ Creed, 48.

The doctrine of God’s providence ought to spur us on to the glorification of God and true gratitude of mind, especially in times of prosperity, when we see the bright face of God more clearly than in times of adversity. For whenever things go well and the way we would like, a godly person should give all the credit to God, whether he experience God’s beneficence through the ministry of other people or be helped by inanimate creatures. For this is what the godly person will think: Surely it is the Lord who has inclined their minds toward me, and it is He who has infused and does infuse other creatures with His power in such a way that they become instruments of His goodness toward me (Jer. 5[:24]; Acts 3[:1-16], 14[:17]).

Caspar Olevianus, An Exposition of the Apostles’ Creed, 48.