Quotes and Sayings 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 -
I have the grace of providence to be poor.
-- Antonio de Oliveira Salazar -
Genius has its fatality. Must we not see in its works a manifestation of the will of Providence?
-- Arsene Houssaye -
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 -
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 -
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 Pierce -
We mustn't be in a hurry to fix and choose our own lot; we must wait to be guided.
-- George Eliot -
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.
-- George Washington -
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 Andersen -
The tidal wave of God's providence is carrying liberty throughout the globe.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
The gods give to mortals not everything at the same time.
-- Homer -
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 -
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 -
God never sends the mouth but he sendeth meat.
-- John Heywood
