Providence Quotes - Page 5

• The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also. With a reliance on Providence, all the more firm and earnest, let us proceed in the great task which events have devolved upon us.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Struggle, Liberty, Events

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.297, Library of America

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• No Senses stronger than his brain can bear. Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly: What the advantage, if his finer eyes Study a Mite, not comprehend the Skies?... Or quick Effluvia darting thro' his brain, Die of a Rose, in Aromatic pain? If Nature thunder'd in his opening ears, And stunn'd him with the music of the Spheres... Who finds not Providence all-good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies?

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Pain, Eye

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• Nothing makes us better understand what trifling things Providence thinks He bestows on men in granting them wealth, money, dignities, and other advantages, than the manner in which they are distributed and the kind of men who have the largest share.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Thinking, Dignity

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• But let not the foundation of our hope rest upon man's wisdom. It will not be sufficient that sectional prejudices find no place in the public deliberations. It will not be sufficient that the rash counsels of human passion are rejected. 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

  Passion, Humble, Men

  Franklin Pierce (1968). “Franklin Pierce, 1804-1869: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

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• 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

  Snakes, Favors, Exception

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• By the divine providence [animals] are intended for man's use... Hence it is not wrong for man to make use of them, either by killing or in any other way whatsoever.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Animal, Men, Use

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• The Prophets even express their surprise that God should take notice of man, who is too little and too unimportant to be worthy of the attention of the Creator; how, then, should other living creatures be considered as proper objects for Divine Providence!

  Maimonides

  Men, Attention, Littles

  Moses Maimonides (2012). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.287, Courier Corporation

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• The strange and wonderful Book of Job treats of the same subject as we are discussing; its contents are a fiction, conceived for the purpose of explaining the different opinions which people hold on Divine Providence. ...This fiction, however, is in so far different from other fictions that it includes profound ideas and great mysteries, removes great doubts, and reveals the most important truths. I will discuss it as fully as possible; and I will also tell you the words of our Sages that suggested to me the explanation of this great poem.

  Maimonides

  Jobs, Book, Ideas

  "Guide for the Perplexed". Book by Maimonides, Ch.22, 1190.

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• God's providence is not blind, but full of eyes.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Eye, Blind

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.351

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• There is no action of man in this life that is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences as no human providence is high enough to give a man a prospect in the end. And in this chain, there are linked together both pleasing and unpleasing events in such manner as he that will do anything for his pleasure must engage himself to suffer all the pains annexed to it.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Pain, Men, Long

  Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.196, Hackett Publishing

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• Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England.

  Horace Porter

  Smile, Ignorance, England

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• Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts.

  Bernie Worrell

  Art, School, Students

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• Mike Stanton is our preeminent aficionado and raconteur of Rhode Island’s flamboyantly criminal political follies, and The Prince of Providence is the chronicle of a great American rogue, Mayor Buddy Cianci—a paragon of charisma and corruption.

  Philip Gourevitch

  Rhode Island, Islands, Political

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• America, the great liberator, is in desperate need of being liberated from itself - from its own excesses and arrogance. And the world needs to be liberated from American values and culture, spreading across the planet as if by divine providence.

  Kalle Lasn

  America, Arrogance, Needs

  "Culture Jam: How To Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge - And Why We Must". Book by Kalle Lasn, 1999.

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• 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

  God, Religious, Humble

  Franklin Pierce (1968). “Franklin Pierce, 1804-1869: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

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• Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.

  Isaac Barrow

  Believe, Men, Charity

  Isaac Barrow, John Tillotson, Abraham Hill (1700). “The works of the learned Isaac Barrow ...”, p.14

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• The Providence of God is like Hebrew words-it can be read only backwards.

  John Flavel

  Hebrew, Backwards

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• We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence.

  Vera Brittain

  Mercy, Should, Understood

  Vera Brittain (2009). “Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study Of The Years 1900-1925”, p.337, Hachette UK

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• It is the duty of the saints, especially in times of straights, to reflect upon the performances of Providence for them in all the states and through all the stages of their lives.

  John Flavel

  Saint, States, Stage

  John flavel, Rev Terry Kulakowski (2017). “The Mystery of Providence”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• Providence is like a curious piece of tapestry made of a thousand shreds, which, single, appear useless, but put together, they represent a beautiful history to the eye.

  John Flavel

  Beautiful, Eye, Together

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• If God has given His Son to die for us, let us beware of doubting His kindness and love in any painful providence of our daily life.

  J. C. Ryle

  Kindness, Son, Doubt

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• Set faith at work on Christ for the killing of thy sin. His blood is the great sovereign remedy for sin-sick souls. Live in this, and thou wilt die a conqueror; yea, thou wilt, through the good providence of God, live to see thy lust dead at thy feet.

  John Owen

  Feet, Blood, Sick

  John Owen (2001). “Temptation and Sin”, p.79, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections. Let these influencing powers actuate, by the permission or disposal of Providence, from selfish or social views, yet in time the mysterious will of Heaven is unfolded, and we behold our conduct, from whatever motives excited, operating to answer the important designs of heaven.

  Daniel Boone

  Powerful, Selfish, Men

  "The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke". Book by John Filson, the opening lines of "The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boon; containing a Narrative of the Wars of Kentucke", 1784.

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• Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.

  Tryon Edwards

  Life, Anger, Anxiety

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.85, Ravenio Books

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• Providence seems to call me to the regions beyond

  David Livingstone

  Call Me, Regions, Seems

  David Livingstone (1961). “Livingstone's Missionary Correspondence, 1841-1856”, p.13, Univ of California Press

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