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Tag Name "Providence" (348)

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Tis Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours.
William Cowper
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Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking.
Frank Herbert
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Providence is wiser than you, and you may be confident it has suited all things better to your eternal good than you could do had you been left to your own option.
John Flavel
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A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly problems. It is almost equally true that a clear and full apprehension of the universal providence of God is the solution of most theological problems.
B. B. Warfield
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The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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
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The hand of Providence creeps among the stars, giving Slothrop the finger.
Thomas Pynchon
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We are entirely in the care of Divine Providence, and it is very sweet to remain so in peace. The Cross is never lacking may it be our consolation.
Rose Philippine Duchesne
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The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.
Simon Bolivar
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Whenever we attempt to mend the scheme of Providence and to interfere in the Government of the world, we had need be very circumspect lest we do more harm than good.
Benjamin Franklin
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My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest but to go straight forward in doing what appears to me right at the time, leaving the consequences with Providence.
Benjamin Franklin
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Such a man the times have demanded, and such, in the providence of God was given us. But he is gone. Let us strive to deserve, as far as mortals may, the continued care of Divine Providence, trusting that, in future national emergencies, He will not fail to provide us the instruments of safety and security.
Abraham Lincoln
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Life is a warfare and he who easily desponds deserts a double duty--he betrays the noblest property of man, which is dauntless resolution and he rejects the providence of that All-Gracious Being who guides and rules the universe.
Jane Porter
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But every human path leads on to God He holds a myriad finer threads than gold, And strong as holy wishes, drawing us With delicate tension upward to Himself.
Edmund Clarence Stedman
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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
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To the dim and bewildered vision of humanity, God's care is more evident in some instances than in others and upon such instances men seize, and call them providences. It is well that they can but it would be gloriously better if they could believe that the whole matter is one grand providence.
George MacDonald
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I regard it (the Constitution) as the work of the purest patriots and wisest statesman that ever existed, aided by the smiles of a benign Providence it almost appears a Divine interposition in our behalf... the hand that destroys our Constitution rends our Union asunder forever.
Daniel Webster
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There are times when words seem empty and only actions seem great. Such a time has come, and in the Providence of God America will once more have an opportunity to show the world that she was born to save mankind.
Woodrow Wilson
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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
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God sendeth cold after clothes.
William Camden
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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
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All things are ordered by God, but His providence takes in our free agency, as well as His own sovereignty.
Tryon Edwards
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I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps.
Horatio Nelson
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Providence has given human wisdom the choice between two fates: either hope and agitation, or hopelessness and calm.
Yevgeny Baratynsky
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