Providence Quotes

The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men.

To that Providence, my sons, I hereby commend you, and I counsel you by way of caution to forbear from crossing the moor in those dark hours when the powers of evil are exalted.

There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain ... Providence appears to protect such women, maybe out of astonishment.

The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger.

I go the way that Providence dictates with the assurance of a sleepwalker.

God never calls His people to accomplish anything without promising to supply their every need.

We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence.

Providence is the perpetuity and continuance of creation.

There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

No life can surpass that of a man who quietly continues to serve God in the place where providence has placed him.

It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in providence.

Providence so orders the case, that faith and prayer come between our wants and supplies, and the goodness of God may be the more magnified in our eyes thereby.

In all created things discern the providence and wisdom of God, and in all things give Him thanks.

My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.

Shakespeare said: "There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow." Everything happens perfectly.

There are four different theories concerning Divine Providence; they are all ancient, known from the time of the Prophets, when the true law was revealed to enlighten these dark regions.

The well of Providence is deep. It's the buckets we bring to it that are small.

I have the grace of providence to be poor.

But I must submit all my Hopes and Fears, to an overruling Providence, in which, unfashionable as the Faith may be, I firmly believe.

Providence is like a curious piece of tapestry made of a thousand shreds, which, single, appear useless, but put together, they represent a beautiful history to the eye.

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.

If, unable to solve the mysteries of Providence, we plunge into Atheism, we only increase a thousand fold the darkness by which we are surrounded

The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.

Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.

If by saying that all men are born equal, you mean that they are equally born, it is true, but true in no other sense; birth, talent, labor, virtue, and providence, are forever making differences

It is the duty of the saints, especially in times of straights, to reflect upon the performances of Providence for them in all the states and through all the stages of their lives.

You don’t question Providence. If you can’t have the reality, a dream is just as good.

When a king creates an office, Providence creates immediately a fool to buy it.

Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air!

I believe that this was God's Will - to send a boy into the Reich, to let him become its Leader, in order to bring his home country into the Reich. Otherwise one must doubt Providence.

Some providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backwards.

Do not fight against Providence; nor bring more heavy weather to the storm. Face what is already there.

Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.

Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay Charles Caleb Colton.

Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment.

Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking.

Tie your camel up as best you can, and then trust it to Providence.

For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.

The quiet life is by no means the greatest life. Some characters can only reach the highest standard of spirituality by the disturbings or displacings in the order of God's providence.

Fate! There is no fate. Between the thought and the success God is the only agent. Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

Highest Providence often works a wonderful miracle: that of having evil men make others who are evil to become good.

Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?

While the saving message spread day by day, some providence brought from Ethiopia an officer of the queen, for that nation is still traditionally ruled by a woman.

Fear not, but trust in Providence, Wherever thou may'st be.

Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, the Creator of the Universe. That He governs it by His Providence. That He ought to be worshipped.

Providence is wiser than you, and you may be confident it has suited all things better to your eternal good than you could do had you been left to your own option.

Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.

Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.

Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.