Providence Quotes
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Comfort is the god of our generation, so suffering is seen as a problem to be solved, and not a providence from God.
— Matt Chandler
Before, I suspected I might not amount to anything, and now I now I won't, so at least it takes away the wearisome burden of delusive hope
— Jasper Fforde
My trust is in the mercy and wisdom of a kind Providence, who ordereth all things for our good.
— Robert E.Lee
The tidal wave of God's providence is carrying liberty throughout the globe.
— Henry Ward Beecher
When Providence favors, you can make a safe voyage on a twig.
— Publilius Syrus
A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles.
— B. B. Warfield
My Calamity is my providence, outwardly it is fire and vengeance, but inwardly it is light and mercy.
— Baha'u'llah
Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
— Alexander Pope
I am convinced that nothing will happen to me, for I know the greatness of the task for which Providence has chosen me.
— Adolf Hitler
Prayer is one of the necessary wheels of the machinery of providence.
— Charles Spurgeon
Nothing is easier to us who pass our time in the great school of Providence than to l'arn its lessons.
— James Fenimore Cooper
A kind Providence furnishes the limpest personality with a little gum or starch in the form of tradition.
— George Eliot
Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now.
— Arthur Miller
People are responsible for their opinions, but Providence is responsible for their morals.
— William Butler Yeats
God never calls His people to accomplish anything without promising to supply their every need.
— Charles R. Swindoll
Providence is but another name for natural law. Natural law itself would go out in a minute if it were not for the divine thought that is behind it.
— Henry Ward Beecher
There is a Power whose careTeaches thy way. — William C. Bryant
God schedules a birthday, not man.
— Robert A. Bradley
O blessed be the grace that makes advantages of my corruptions, even to contradict and kill themselves (648).
— Richard Baxter
A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
— Alexander Pope
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[T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect.
— George Washington
When destiny is calling even the deaf can hear him.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Chance is a nickname for Providence.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Providence must call us and we must follow it, if we are to go forward confidently.
— Vincent De Paul
Anxiety is a sin also because it is a lack of acceptance of God's providence in our lives.
— Jerry Bridges
You don't question Providence. If you can't have the reality, a dream is just as good.
— Ray Bradbury
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
All that is from the gods is full of Providence.
— Marcus Aurelius
A nutritious substance supplied by a bountiful Providence for the fattening of the poor.
— Ambrose Bierce
Work is a major instrument of God's providence; it is how he sustains the human world.
— Timothy Keller
Burke, could he see our century, never would concede that a consumption-society is the end for which Providence has prepared man.
— Russell Kirk
We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence.
— Samuel Richardson
But I thank Providence that I came here.
— Neil Gaiman
It is as though we have grown wings, which thanks to Providence, we have learnt to control.
— Louis Bleriot
To his mind, an opportunity to insult a successful ape cam from the hand of Providence.
— Flannery O'Connor
The sentences in the book of providence are sometimes long, and you must read a great way before you understand their meaning.
— Matthew Henry
Adorable ambuscades of providence!
— Victor Hugo
It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
When I have no idea, I gnaw my nails and invoke the aid of Providence.
— Brander Matthews
I have only been an instrument in the hands of Providence.
— George Washington
I had rather have God for my banker than all the Rothschilds.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
We are entirely in the care of Divine Providence, and it is very sweet to remain so in peace. The Cross is never lacking; may it be our consolation.
— Rose Philippine Duchesne
How strange a checker-work of Providence is the life of man!
— Daniel Defoe
Confidence is providence
— Habeeb Akande
He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright
— Blaise Pascal
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[D]ivine Providence ... keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul ...
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger.
— Charles Spurgeon
There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
— Gottfried Leibniz
As I did, there, in perfect condition, to be admired by five sets of wondering eyes, was an enormous, glistening, moist, chocolate cake.
— Brother Andrew
You know you have found your life mission when you say, I dare you to try and take this away from me.
— Shannon L. Alder
Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events.
— George Santayana
The axle of the wheels of the chariot of Providence is Infinite Love, and Gracious Wisdom is the perpetual charioteer.
— Charles Spurgeon
The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.
— Mark Twain
There is no doubt such a thing as chance, but I see no reason why Providence should not make use of it.
— William Gilmore Simms
I could see Sulla showing her the Cards of Providence, the cards that would one day form the spread that showed her my death.
— Kami Garcia
The day is not over yet. You may still meet with Providence, who never gets up before noon.
— Henri Murger
Screwing up is hardly a major mistake. Sometimes your wrong choices bring you to the right places.
— Shannon L. Alder
To require God to prove that He is able and willing to fulfill His promises would be proof positive that one does not trust Him.
— Charles R. Swindoll
Human love is to devote a part of ourselves to the providence of another existence. To be without this devotion is to be void of love.
— Michael Hollingworth
God's providence is His constant care for and His absolute rule over all His creation for His own glory and the good of His people.
— Jerry Bridges
There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow.
— William Shakespeare
Shall we call coincidence what God calls providence?
— Beth Moore
Let us hope ... that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.
— Peter De Vries
Someone described Providence as the baptismal name of chance; no doubt some pious person will retort that chance is the nickname of Providence.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Trust the past to God's mercy, the present to God's love, and the future to God's providence.
— Augustine Of Hippo
Perhaps there is no providence, no fate, no grand plan, she thinks now. Perhaps we dig our own traps and lie down in them.
— Emma Donoghue
LAST, n. A shoemaker's implement, named by a frowning Providence as opportunity to the maker of puns.
— Ambrose Bierce
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.
— Simon Bolivar
Fate controls only the weak, Your Highness. The strong mould the providence the want
— Amish Tripathi
I have always felt that whatever the divine Providence permitted to occur, I was not too proud to report.
— Charles A. Dana
We must mark God's providence leading us; and if providence tarries, tarry till providence comes
— Charles Spurgeon
Appetite, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question.
— Ambrose Bierce
I firmly believe in Divine Providence. Without belief in Providence I think I should go crazy. Without God the world would be a maze without a clue.
— Woodrow Wilson
When we reckon without Providence, we must frequently reckon twice.
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
Let no man talk of murderers escaping justice, and hint that providence must sleep.
— Charles Dickens
I must not quarrel with the willOf highest dispensation, which herein,
Haply had ends above my reach to know. — John Milton
Providence seems to call me to the regions beyond
— David Livingstone
She knew that the word providence meant foresight, the future beheld before it was experienced.
— Jhumpa Lahiri
History is the revelation of Providence.
— Lajos Kossuth
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.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton