Quotes About Providence

Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time.

Sometimes these things happen. God knows what He's doing and we just have to trust His plan.

God wastes nothing.

In EVERY situation and EVERY circumstance of your life, God is always doing a thousand different things that you cannot see and you do not know.

Lo más importante es que hay un gran propósito detrás de la Creación y la Caída. Aprendemos que nada sucede por error; que no hay personajes irrelevantes; que hay un propósito para todo y para todos.

Albert Einstein observed, "Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

As Albert Einstein observed, "Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous." When

As Albert Einstein observed, "Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous".

The trouble with me, he thought unhappily, is that I have been about the world long enough to know that God's plans for us, however infallibly good, may not take the form that we expect and demand.

God disposes all. From the highest to the lowest extreme of a man's scope, wherever justice and retribution can reach him, so can grace.

Perhaps there is no providence, no fate, no grand plan, she thinks now. Perhaps we dig our own traps and lie down in them.

Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.

It has been ordained that there be summer and winter, abundance and dearth, virtue and vice, and all such opposites for the harmony of the whole, and (Zeus) has given each of us a body, property, and companions.

The divine order does not design people or circumstance according to our tastes

If it pleases the gods, so be it.

Nikad ne molim Boga da me poštedi nevolja, ve? samo da me poštedi o?aja. Ne gubi povjerenje: kada te Svevišnji ispusti iz jedne ruke, uhvati te drugom.

À chaque époque, commente le moine Élias, il s'est trouvé parmi les gens de Kfaryabda un personnage fou, et lorsqu'il disparaissait, un autre était prêt à prendre sa place comme une braise sous la cendre pour que ce feu ne s'éteigne jamais. Sans doute la Providence a-t-elle besoin de ces pantins qu'elle agite de ses doigts pour déchirer les voiles que la sagesse des hommes a tissés.

There is no freedom about this: the world gives, and you just take what you're given, with no opportunity to choose.

was being made in secret, intricately wrought in the depths of the earth. Your eyes beheld my unformed substance; in your book were written, everyone of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them. (PSALM 139: 13-16)

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He does not want to sign His name.

With the duckets that I now have safe, I think I will retire at 66 years of age, praise God, in good health.

I didn't know if I was going to be drafted, period. I remember sitting there and just praying that whatever God has for me to happen, and I didn't get any calls from anybody else the whole round. And then I got a call from New England five hours after the draft started.