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• 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.

  James Otis

  Sister, Lightning, Dear God

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• You may look upon some providences once and again, and see little or nothing in them, but look "seven times," that is, meditate often upon them, and you will see their increasing glory, like that increasing cloud (1 Kings 18:44).

  John Flavel

  Christian, Kings, Clouds

  John Flavel (2013). “The Mystery of Providence”, p.83, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.

  Chinua Achebe

  Tasks, Generations, Embrace

  Chinua Achebe (2012). “There Was a Country: A Memoir”, p.22, Penguin

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• We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.

  Robert E. Lee

  Failure, Blessing, Civil War

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

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Details, Affair, Humans

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1854). “Memoirs of celebrated characters”, p.141

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• And now let us consider and marvel that ever this great and blessed God should be so much concerned, as you have heard He is in all His providences, about such vile, despicable worms as we are! He does not need us, but is perfectly blessed and happy in Himself without us. We can add nothing to Him.

  John Flavel

  Christian, Blessed, Doe

  "The Mystery of Providence".

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• How often has providence convinced its observers, upon a sober recollection of the events of their lives, that if the Lord had left them to their own counsels they had as often been their own tormentors, if not executioners!

  John Flavel

  Christian, Events, Sober

  John Flavel (1840). “Divine Conduct: Or, The Mystery of Providence, Wherein the Being and Efficacy of Providence are Asserted and Vindicated ... and the Proper Course of Improving All Providences Pointed Out”, p.19

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• Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

  Victor Hugo

  Children, Blessed, Men

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• I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with whom I desired only to live; yet the dreadful apprehensions I have of what is coming upon this land may help to make me submissive to this providence, though more bitter.

  Donald Cargill

  Land, May, Helping

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• The great Master Gardener, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, in a wonderful providence, with his own hand, planted me here, where by his grace, in this part of his vineyard, I grow; and here I will abide till the great Master of the vineyard think fit to transplant me.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Jesus, Father, Thinking

  Samuel Rutherford (1867). “Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford”, p.487

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• 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

  Real, Faults, Individual

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (2012). “The Philosophy of History”, p.36, Courier Corporation

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• People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but he was a cunning and calculating politician; from the cultivation of his image as a hayseed from Illinois, to his ability to keep this country together under dire circumstances.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Country, Illinois, People

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• Ah, did we but rightly understand what the demerit of sin is, we would rather admire the bounty of God than complain of the straithandedness of Providence. And if we did but consider that there lies upon God no obligation of justice or gratitud to reward any of our duties, it would cure our murmurs (Gen. 32:10).

  John Flavel

  Lying, Justice, Complaining

  John Flavel (1820). “The whole works of John Flavel: late minister of the gospel at Dartmouth, Devon”, p.398

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• 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.

  John Flavel

  Christian, Prayer, Eye

  John Flavel (2013). “The Mystery of Providence”, p.60, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Everything Happens For A Reason, Hours, Strive

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.233, Rajpal & Sons

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• All the dark, intricate, puzzling providences at which we were sometimes so offended...we shall [one day] see to be to us, as the difficult passage through the wilderness was to Israel, "the right way to the city of habitation".

  John Flavel

  Christian, Dark, Israel

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• When our needs are permitted to grow to an extremity, and all visible hopes fail, then to have relief given wonderfully enhances the price of such a mercy

  John Flavel

  Relief, Needs, Failing

  John Flavel (2013). “The Mystery of Providence”, p.83, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.

  Max Frisch

  Believe, Fate, Used

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• You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.

  Maimonides

  Reality, Astrology, Imagination

  Moses Maimonides (2016). “Guide for the perplexed”, p.297, Moses Maimonides

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• Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.

  Francis Bacon

  Moving, Science, Men

  Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1854). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England”, p.11

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• Today I must humbly thank Providence, whose grace has enabled me, who was once an unknown soldier in the War, to bring to a successful issue the struggle for the restoration of our honor and rights as a nation.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Struggle, Successful

  Adolf Hitler (1944). “Hitler's Words”

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• I believe in Providence and I believe Providence to be just. Therefore I believe that Providence always rewards the strong, the industrious, and the upright.

  Adolf Hitler

  Strong, Believe, Atheism

  Adolf Hitler “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939: An English Translation of Representative Passages Arranged Under Subjects and Edited by Norman H. Baynes”

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• We must follow, not force Providence.

  William Shakespeare

  Force

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• Rashly,
  And praised be rashness for it--let us know,
  Our indiscretion sometime serves us well
  When our deep plots do pall, and that should learn us
  There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
  Rough-hew them how we will

  William Shakespeare

  Plot, Shapes, Divinity

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. 10

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• Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.

  Imran Khan

  Spiritual, Men, Opposites

  "The path of Khan". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.

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