Quotes About Providence

único que queda es la providencia de remisión que hemos solicitado al Supremo.

Yet by some stroke of almost providential good fortune, he became wanted.

The Bible considers it much more important to say that God has made everything work rather than being content to say that God made the physical stuff.

Owen Meany believed that "coincidence" was a stupid, shallow refuge sought by stupid, shallow people who were unable to accept the fact that their lives were shaped by a terrifying and awesome design – more powerful and unstoppable than the Yankee Flyer. (a train)

He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.

MADE FOR TELEVISION!' said Owen Meany.

A Prayer for Owen Meany

Here is what Owen Meany (and the armadillo) said: "GOD HAS TAKEN YOUR MOTHER. MY HANDS WERE THE INSTRUMENT. GOD HAS TAKEN MY HANDS. I AM GOD'S INSTRUMENT

It made him furious when I suggested that anything was an "accident"—especially anything that had happened to him; on the subject of predestination, Owen Meany would accuse Calvin of bad faith. There were no accidents; there was a reason for that baseball—just as there was a reason for Owen being small, and a reason for his voice.

Providence has given to our people the choice of their ruler, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers. John Jay First Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court.

Fortuna, that vicious slut.

They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand, the gate With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms: Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide; They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.

What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. 1 Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 22.

There is no such thing as an accident, only a failure to recognise the hand of fate

Let us be submissive to Providence, He will see to our affairs in His own time and in His own way

What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?

Providence must call us and we must follow it, if we are to go forward confidently.

But I must submit all my Hopes and Fears, to an overruling Providence, in which, unfashionable as the Faith may be, I firmly believe.

The will of God will never take you, where the grace of God cannot keep you. So trust and believe in God without a doubt.

We can make our plans, but the Lord determines our steps.

It was fated long ago, fated a hundred different ways.

For the pestilence to reach Warwickshire, England, in the summer of 1596, two events need to occur in the lives of two separate people, and then these people need to meet.

the pestilence to reach Warwickshire, England, in the summer of 1596, two events need to occur in the lives of two separate people, and then these people need to meet.

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.