Quotes About Providence

Raffiniert ist der Herr Gott, aber boshaft ist Er nicht.

The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men.

The insults bounced off their carapace of thick stupidity; they stared at him with a blank expression of dull and sullen resentment in their eyes. The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men

Such is life, such the mysterious dispensations of providence. All of us have our little crosses, and every man, as the apostle so justly remarked, shall bear his own burden.

Providence takes its cue from men

Los dioses son justos, sin duda, pero su código legal es dictado, en última instancia, por las personas que organizan la sociedad. La Providencia recibe órdenes de los hombres.

Due pezzi di puzzle. Fatti l'uno per l'altro. Da qualche parte del cielo un vecchio Signore, in quell'istante, li aveva finalmente ritrovati. - Diavolo! Lo dicevo Io che non potevano essere scomparsi.

I've put myself in the place of Providence to reward the good ones... and now let the god of vengeance grant me it's place to punish the wicked!

And now...farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude. I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.

I have been taken by Satan into the highest mountain in the earth, and when there he said he to me, 'Child of earth, what wouldst thou have to make thee adore me?' I replied, 'Listen, I wish to be Providence myself, for I feel that the most beautiful, noblest, most sublime thing in the world, is to recompense and punish.

I wish to be Providence myself, for I feel that the most beautiful, noblest, most sublime thing in the world, is to recompense and punish.

And now,' said the stranger, 'farewell, goodness, humanity, gratitude... Farewell all those feelings that nourish and illuminate the heart! I have taken the place of Providence to reward the good; now let the avenging God make way for me to punish the wrongdoer!

A man is always endowed by Heaven with too much for his own happiness, and just enough to make him miserable.

It is predictable that God will take care of us. What's unpredictable is how he will do it.

I felt, even at fifteen, that God meant man to be happy, that He meant to provide him with what he needed to maintain life in order to be happy, and that we did not need to have quite so much destruction and misery as I saw all around and read of in the daily press.

If all things work together for good for them that love God and are called according to His purpose, then this means that billions of plot points are going to come together in the most satisfying cathartic release possible at the end of all time. The

So my responsibility is, so to speak, whatever is in front of me, there on my workbench or desk or counter. I should do a first-rate job with that, and other things will fall into place. And as they fall into place, it will not be the impersonal doing of Adam Smith's invisible hand. Every blessing a Christian ever receives is from a pierced hand.

If all things work together for good for them that love God and are called according to His purpose, then this means that billions of plot points are going to come together in the most satisfying cathartic release possible at the end of all time.

Believing in accidents is like believing in miracles--both presuppose that God does not know the future. (Noli Me Tángere)

God won't allow anything happen in your life if it's not for your good.

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

Just as a person, just in my life, the way I was raised, my grandmother made it very clear that God will make a way.

God arranges everything for us, so that we need have no more fear or trouble and may be quite sure that all things will come right in the end.

The quiet life is by no means the greatest life. Some characters can only reach the highest standard of spirituality by the disturbings or displacings in the order of God's providence.