Providence Quotes - Page 26

• The damnest scoundrel that ever lived, but in the infinite mercy of Providence... also the damnest fool.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Fool, Infinite, Mercy

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• The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Genius, Blind, Deaf

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• A revelation is to be received as coming from God, not because of its internal excellence, or because we judge it to be worthy of God; but because God has declared it to be His in as plain and undeniable a manner as He has declared creation and providence to be His.

  William Law

  Judging, Excellence, Creation

  William Law (1974). “The works”

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• Do not fight against Providence; nor bring more heavy weather to the storm. Face what is already there.

  Menander

  Determination, Fighting, Weather

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• A great character, founded on the living rock of principle is, in fact, not a solitary phenomenon, to be at once perceived, limited, and described. It is a dispensation of Providence, designed to have not merely an immediate, but a continuous, progressive, and never-ending agency. It survives the man who possessed it; survives his age,--and perhaps, his country, his language.

  Edward Everett

  Country, Character, Men

  Edward Everett (1850). “Orations and speeches on various occasions”, p.576

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• Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct the eternal will? Seek virtue, and of that possest, To Providence resign the rest.

  John Gay

  Ignorance, Virtue, Eternity

  John Gay (1863). “The Poetical Works of John Gay: With a Life of the Author”, p.78

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• If all my talents and powers were to be taken from me by some unscrutable Providence, and I had my choice of keeping but one, I would unhesitatingly ask for be allowed to keep the Power of Speaking, for through it I would quickly recover all the rest.

  Daniel Webster

  Taken, Choices, Talent

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• ...And these vicissitudes come best in youth;
  For when they happen at a riper age,
  People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth,
  And wonder Providence is not more sage.
  Adversity is the first path to truth:
  He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage,
  Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty,
  Has won experience which is deem'd so weighty.

  Lord Byron

  Truth, War, Adversity

  Lord Byron (2009). “Don Juan”, p.520, The Floating Press

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• Illness is merely the bitter, which a wise Providence mingles in the cup of life.

  James Holman

  Wise, Cups, Bitter

  James Holman (1840). “Travels in Madeira, Sierra Leone, Teneriffe, St. Jago, Cape Coast, Fernando Po, Princes Island, Etc. Etc”, p.10

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• It may be the will of Heaven that America shall suffer calamities still more wasting, and distresses yet more dreadful. If this is to be the case, it will have the good effect at least. It will inspire us with many virtues, which we have not, and correct many errors, follies and vices. But I must submit all my hopes and fears to an overruling Providence, in which, unfashionable as the faith may be, I firmly believe.

  John Adams

  Believe, America, Errors

  Letter to Abigail Adams, teachingamericanhistory.org. July 03, 1776.

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• It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion. For while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.

  Francis Bacon

  Philosophy, Men, Mind

  1625 Essays, no.9 'Of Atheism'. See Berkeley 79:7.

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• When God is about to bestow some great blessing on His church, it is often His manner, in the first place, so to order things in His providence as to show His church their great need of it, and to bring them into distress for want of it, and so put them upon crying earnestly to Him for it.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Blessing, Order, Church

  Jonathan Edwards (2015). “Jonathan Edwards on Revival”, p.303, Ravenio Books

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• If in God's loving plan you have to bow before what appears to be a frowning providence, you can be sure that He's got your ultimate happiness at heart. He's working to free you from your worries, not by giving freedom from trouble, but by arranging circumstances so that as you go through them you'll experience the truth that He is everything He says He is

  Elyse Fitzpatrick

  Heart, Giving, Worry

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• That which is not allotted the hand cannot reach; what is allotted you will find wherever you may be.

  Saadi

  Hands, May

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