Best 112 quotes in «providence quotes» category

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

Chance is a nickname for Providence.

Bountiful as is the hand of Providence, its gifts are not so bestowed as to seduce us into indolence, but to rouse us to exertion.

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.

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

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.

[D]ivine Providence... keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul.

Do I learn through dark providences, or simply seem relieved when they are over?

Fear not, but trust in Providence, Wherever thou may'st be.

Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms. [Ger., Die Gaben Kommen von oben herab, in ihren eignen Gestalten.]

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

God's providence is on the side of clear heads.

God tempers the cold to the shorn sheep.

Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, the Creator of the Universe. That He governs it by His Providence. That He ought to be worshipped.

Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.

Grace makes the promise and providence the payment.

History is the revelation of Providence.

If heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.

How strange a checker-work of Providence is the life of man!

I am convinced that nothing will happen to me, for I know the greatness of the task for which Providence has chosen me.

I must not quarrel with the will Of highest dispensation, which herein, Haply had ends above my reach to know.

I knew I had to get out of Boston and stop making movies there, at least for one movie, otherwise no one would ever consider me for a movie that took place south of Providence.

I know nothing of the science of astrology and I consider it to be a science, if it is a science, of doubtful value, to be severely left alone by those who have any faith in Providence.

In all created things discern the providence and wisdom of God, and in all things give Him thanks.

In all God's providences, it is good to compare His word and His works together; for we shall find a beautiful harmony between them, and that they mutually illustrate each other.

No life can surpass that of a man who quietly continues to serve God in the place where providence has placed him.

It is because we have such shallow views of God's love that we have such defective views of God's dealings. We blindly interpret the symbols of His providence, because we so imperfectly read the engravings of His heart.

Providence has at all times been my only dependence, for all other resources seemed to have failed us.

Prayer is one of the necessary wheels of the machinery of providence.

Providence is a greater mystery than revelation.

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

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

The belief in free-will is not in the least incompatible with the belief in Providence, provided you do not restrict the Providence to fulminating nothing but fatal decrees.

The axle of the wheels of the chariot of Providence is Infinite Love, and Gracious Wisdom is the perpetual charioteer.

The boundless stores of Providence are engaged for the support of the believer.

The moment we definitely commit ourselves, Providence moves, too.

We cannot measure Divine Providence by the yardstick of human mentality.

The tidal wave of God's providence is carrying liberty throughout the globe.

The well of Providence is deep. It's the buckets we bring to it that are small.

Tie your camel up as best you can, and then trust it to Providence.

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.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

Destiny is the only ship that will never sink, even if it has a leak.

Woman! thou loveliest gift that here below Man can receive, or Providence bestow.

Washington, like most scholarly Virginians of his time, was a Deist... Contemporary evidence shows that in mature life Washington was a Deist, and did not commune, which is quite consistent with his being a vestryman. In England, where vestries have secular functions, it is not unusual for Unitarians to vestrymen, there being no doctrinal subscription required for that office. Washington's letters during the Revolution occasionally indicate his recognition of the hand of Providence in notable public events, but in the thousands of his letters I have never been able to find the name of Christ or any reference to him. {Conway was employed to edit Washington's letters}

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

But GOD was above them, who laughed his Enemies and the Enemies of his People to Scorn, making them as a fiery Oven: Thus were the Stout Hearted spoiled, having slept their last Sleep, and none of their Men could find their Hands: Thus did the LORD judge among the Heathen, filling the Place with dead Bodies!

Chance is when you look at the world through humanity’s eyes; providence is when you look at the world through God's eyes.

When I have no idea, I gnaw my nails and invoke the aid of Providence.

While the saving message spread day by day, some providence brought from Ethiopia an officer of the queen, for that nation is still traditionally ruled by a woman.