Quotes About Providence

I've lived a charmed life. I've been very lucky. God has been very kind to me.

The virtue she valued most was faith. It had no place on Franklin's list. She placed her trust in Providence. He placed his faith in man.

Incidentally, that is why complaints against the weather are complaints against God Himself—He purposefully controls it just as it is happening. This is also why natural "disasters" are called "acts of God.

God knows the future. He knows how much we can take, and He knows exactly what we need. His faithfulness gives us confidence that He is ever watching over us for our good and for His own glory.

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.

We do not see our hand in what happens, and so we call certain events melancholy accidents… —Stanley Cavell

Not even Necessity knows all ends.

Ao que, digo ao senhor, pergunto! em sua vida é assim? Na minha, agora é que vejo, as coisas importantes, todas, em caso curto de acaso foi que se conseguiram ? pelo pulo fino de sem ver se dar ? a sorte momenteira, por cabelo por um fio, um clim de clina de cavalo. Ah, e se não fosse, cada acaso, não tivesse sido, qual é então que teria sido o meu destino seguinte? Coisa vã, que não conforma respostas. As vezes essa ideia me põe susto.

If the requirements of world-structure are so inexorable, what scope is there for a free providence in distributing pleasures and pains? If pains are the natural rubs of a world-structure bearing on sentient creatures, what need have we to view them as instruments of a disciplinary providence?

The Lord made a way. He has a knack for doin' that. Makin' a way outa no way.

Your Father knows what you need before you ask him. MATTHEW 6:8

It was ordained. Just as the fates deal out the plague with a tarot card. Just as the Supreme Being drills holes in our skulls to let the Boston Symphony through.

There was a time when any idea of voluntary limitation was regarded by pious people as interfering with Providence. We are beyond that now, and have become capable of recognising that Providence works through the common sense of individual brains.

Certain projects find you at the right time.

Sometimes you can trust and hope that everything is going to be rosy and God doesn't promise that. He promises that He's got our backs and He's prepared a place for us.

I believe that God will provide in his own way.

He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.

But it was too late. He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.

To his mind, an opportunity to insult a successful ape cam from the hand of Providence.

I do believe in fate.

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

Fate has blessed me.

I'm a very big believer in fate.

I believe in fate.