Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

The line suggests that what we call “coincidence” may be a veil for hidden order or providence: events appear random only because the underlying causes or purposes are not visible to us. Attributing anonymity to “God” frames chance as a kind of disguised agency—an idea that resonates with religious or deistic readings of the world, but sits uneasily with Einstein’s own public stance, which invoked “God” largely as metaphor for lawful harmony in nature rather than a personal deity. In quotation databases this saying is often used to express faith that meaningful patterns exist even when they cannot be proved.