In Christian theology, the care and government of God over the world, such that nothing happens without the divine will. The image of the sparrow comes from the Gospel of Matthew (10:29): not one sparrow falls to the earth without the Father’s will. The passage is cited in Reformed theology to affirm that nothing in the world occurs outside God’s reach.
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There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. [...] The readiness is all.