quotes about Providence
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Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.
-- Abbe Pierre -
I go the way that Providence dictates with the assurance of a sleepwalker.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Father, help us to rest our heads on the soft pillow of Your providence.
-- Alistair Begg -
Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
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I have the grace of providence to be poor.
-- Antonio de Oliveira SalazarSource : "Salazar and his time" by César de Oliveira, The Official Publisher, (p. 98), 1991.
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Genius has its fatality. Must we not see in its works a manifestation of the will of Providence?
-- Arsene HoussayeSource : Arsène Houssaye (1852). “Philosophers and Actresses”, p.107
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There is a great Field-Marshal, my friend, who arrays our battalions; Let us to Providence trust, and abide and work in our stations.
-- Arthur Hugh Clough -
A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles.
-- B. B. Warfield -
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A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly problems. It is almost equally true that a clear and full apprehension of the universal providence of God is the solution of most theological problems.
-- B. B. Warfield -
I knew I had to get out of Boston and stop making movies there, at least for one movie, otherwise no one would ever consider me for a movie that took place south of Providence.
-- Ben Affleck -
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.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Providence seems to call me to the regions beyond
-- David Livingstone -
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But I'm in favor of every religion with the possible exception of snake-chunking. Anybody that so presumes on how he stands with Providence that he will let a snake bite him, I say he deserves what he's got coming to him.
-- Earl Long -
All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America.
-- Ezra Stiles -
It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.
-- Franklin PierceSource : Franklin Pierce (1968). “Franklin Pierce, 1804-1869: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”
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We mustn't be in a hurry to fix and choose our own lot; we must wait to be guided.
-- George Eliot -
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Providence has at all times been my only dependence, for all other resources seemed to have failed us.
-- George Washington -
I have only been an instrument in the hands of Providence.
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It was clear to me, as I glanced back over my earlier life, that a loving Providence watched over me, that all was directed for me by a higher power.
-- Hans Christian AndersenSource : Hans Christian Andersen (1871). “The Story of My Life”, p.146
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The tidal wave of God's providence is carrying liberty throughout the globe.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
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Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.
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The gods give to mortals not everything at the same time.
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Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.
-- Honore de Balzac -
Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
-- James Russell Lowell -
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The Providence of God is like Hebrew words-it can be read only backwards.
-- John Flavel -
Some providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backwards.
-- John Flavel -
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.
-- John Flavel -
God's providence is not blind, but full of eyes.
-- John Greenleaf Whittier -
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God never sends the mouth but he sendeth meat.
-- John Heywood -
I must not quarrel with the will Of highest dispensation, which herein, Haply had ends above my reach to know.
-- John Milton -
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The well of Providence is deep. It's the buckets we bring to it that are small.
-- Mary Webb -
When I took off from Providence, my only professional aspiration was what it had always been: I wanted to be a sportscaster. By the time I landed in the desert, I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to be a writer.
-- Mike Greenberg -
Tie your camel up as best you can, and then trust it to Providence.
-- Nazr Mohammed -
Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.
-- Oliver Cromwell -
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Let us hope, I prayed, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.
-- Peter De Vries -
You don’t question Providence. If you can’t have the reality, a dream is just as good.
-- Ray Bradbury -
Providence is the perpetuity and continuance of creation.
-- Richard Sibbes -
That's best Which God sends. 'Twas His will: it is mine.
-- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton -
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And Burke, could he see our century, never would concede that a consumption-society, so near to suicide, is the end for which Providence has prepared man.
-- Russell Kirk -
It's better to have a malign providence than an indifferent one.
-- Sebastian Faulks -
Do your duty and leave the rest to Providence.
-- Stonewall Jackson -
Fear not, but trust in Providence, Wherever thou may'st be.
-- Thomas Haynes BaylySource : Thomas Haynes Bayly (1844). “Songs and Ballads, Grave and Gay”, p.42
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Whatever our place allotted to us by Providence that for us is the post of honor and duty. God estimates us, not by the position we are in, but by the way in which we fill it.
-- Tryon Edwards -
We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence.
-- Vera BrittainSource : Vera Brittain (2009). “Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study Of The Years 1900-1925”, p.337, Hachette UK
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It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.
-- Victor Hugo -
Behold, now, another providence of God. A ship comes into the harbor.
-- William BradfordSource : William Bradford (1952). “Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647”, p.112, Rutgers University Press
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If heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.
-- William BrowneSource : Nicholas Breton, George Wither, William Browne (1906). “Nicholas Breton: Pastoral Poems; George Wither: Selected Poetry; William Browne (of Tavistock): Pastoral Poetry”
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There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way.
-- William C. Bryant -
God sendeth cold after clothes.
-- William CamdenSource : "Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine". Book by William Camden, 1605.
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Tis Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours.
-- William Cowper -
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Woman! thou loveliest gift that here below Man can receive, or Providence bestow.
-- Winthrop Mackworth PraedSource : Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1886). “Poems”
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God tempers the cold to the shorn sheep.
-- Henri Etienne Sainte-Claire Deville -
I have always felt that whatever the divine Providence permitted to occur, I was not too proud to report.
-- Charles A. Dana -
Without any cant, does not Providence provide wonderfully for us?
-- Isabel BurtonSource : Lady Isabel Burton (1879). “Arabia, Egypt, India: A Narrative of Travel”, London, W. Mullan and son
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The moment we definitely commit ourselves, Providence moves, too.
-- W. H. Murray