Providence Quotes

• A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles.

  B. B. Warfield

  Faith, Trouble, Firm

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• Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

  Saint Augustine

  Life, Christian, Law

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• 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

  Truth, May, Trust In God

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• Grace makes the promise and providence the payment.

  John Flavel

  Grace, Promise, Payment

  John Flavel (2013). “The Mystery of Providence”, p.6, Lulu Press, Inc

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• 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

  Crazy, Believe, Thinking

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• Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Running, World, All Time

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiation - creation - there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Ignorance, Commitment, Ideas

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• We cannot better assure our eternal happiness than by living and dying in the service of the poor, in the arms of Providence, and with genuine renouncement of ourselves in order to follow Jesus Christ.

  Vincent de Paul

  Jesus, Order, Dying

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1992). “Correspondence, conferences, documents”, New City Pr

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• God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money, Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.

  William Cowper

  Pride, Men, Devil

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• 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

  Law, Names, Natural

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1872). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.118

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• I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.

  Richard Rumbold

  Believe, Fate, Men

  On the scaffold, in T. B. Macauley 'Histories of England' vol. 1 (1849) ch. 1

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• Providence protects us in all the details of our lot.

  Madame de Stael

  Details, Protect

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• That's best Which God sends. 'Twas His will: it is mine.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Resignation, Mines

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• I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

  John Adams

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Illumination

  John Adams (2004). “The Portable John Adams”, p.214, Penguin

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• If God but cares for our inward and eternal life, if by all the experiences of this life He is reducing it and preparing for its disclosure, nothing can befall us but prosperity. Every sorrow shall be but the setting of some luminous jewel of joy. Our very morning shall be but the enamel around the diamond; our very hardships but the metallic rim that holds the opal, glancing with strange interior fires.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Morning, Fire, Jewels

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• Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Fate, Servant, Rulers

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• The ways of Providence being inscrutable, and the justice of it not to be scanned by the shallow eye of humanity, nor to be counteracted by the utmost efforts of human power or wisdom, resignation, and as far as the strength of our reason and religion can carry us, a cheerful acquiescence to the Divine Will, is what we are to aim.

  George Washington

  Eye, Justice, Effort

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson, United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission (1944). “The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799: prepared under the direction of the United States George Washington bicentennial commission and published by authority of Congress”

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• God smiles as He has always smiled;
  Ere suns and moons could wax and wane,
  Ere stars were thundergirt, or piled
  The Heavens, God thought on me His child;
  Ordained a life for me, arrayed
  Its circumstances, every one
  To the minutest; ay, God said
  This head this hand should rest upon
  Thus, ere He fashioned star or sun.

  Robert Browning

  Stars, Children, Moon

  Robert Browning (2013). “MEN AND WOMEN Songs of love and life”, p.47, Lulu.com

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• Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.

  James Russell Lowell

  Shadow, Watches, Breaking Silence

  James Russell Lowell, “The Present Crisis”

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• We are apt to believe in Providence so long as we have our own way; but if things go awry, then we think, if there is a God, he is in heaven, and not on earth.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Believe, Thinking, If There Is A God

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.88

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• We are not to lead events, but to follow them.

  Epictetus

  Events

  Epictetus (1807). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses in Four Books Preserved by Arrian, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.48

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• I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.

  Laurence Sterne

  Doors, Mountain, Cottages

  Laurence Sterne (1795). “The Works of Laurence Sterne”, p.175

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• God sendeth cold after clothes.

  William Camden

  Clothes, Cold

  "Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine". Book by William Camden, 1605.

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• There is a Power whose care
  Teaches thy way.

  William C. Bryant

  Care, Way, Teach

  William Cullen Bryant, “To A Waterfowl”

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• Chance is a nickname for Providence.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Nicknames, Chance, Chances Are

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