mills of the gods grind slowly

Idioms  

1. One's destiny is inevitable even if it takes considerable time to arrive. For example, I'm sure he'll be wealthy one day, though the mills of the gods grind slowly. This expression comes from ancient Greek, translated as “The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind small.” In English it appeared in George Herbert's Jacula Prudentum (1640) as “God's mill grinds slow but sure.”

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Example Sentences

This was not immediately apparent, however, for, as they also often say in Hollywood, the mills of the gods grind slowly.

From Time Magazine Archive

He says the mills of the gods grind slowly, but they pulverise middling fine.

From Remarks by Nye, Bill

The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small.

From This Crowded Earth by Bloch, Robert

P. S. ‘The mills of the gods grind slowly,  But they grind exceeding small.’

From The Award of Justice Or, Told in the Rockies A Pen Picture of the West by Barbour, A. Maynard (Anna Maynard)

The mills of the gods grind slowly because they grind fine.

From The Ghost in the White House Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can mak by Lee, Gerald Stanley