Quotes About Providence

God told you to leave that trunk in the basement for me?" Incredulous. Doubt. Awe. "I think He did. I believe He did. And you found it. And you wore it.

But for God...

He determines the course of world events; he removes kings and sets others on the throne.

Why should this girl have crossed Stephen's path, or indeed Stephen hers, if it came to that matter? Was not the world large enough for them both? Perhaps not — or perhaps the event of their meeting had already been written upon tablets of stone by some wise if relentless recording finger.

I think God has a tremendous sense of humor.

deceived by that winning and imposing frankness of manner, which it has pleased Providence to give to the Afghans, as it did to the first serpent…

I'm going to stop worrying about what might happen to us. With the Lord's help we've been able to make ourselves a good living ever since Father died, and the fortune that has befallen us here in Medford certainly doesn't lead me to believe we will be abandoned now.

America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race.

The Power that created you has created the world as well. If it can take care of you, it can similarily take care of the world also. If God has created the world, it is His business to look after it, not yours.

Growing up, I've always felt I was God's favoured child. Circumstances to help me just happen.

If it had been what was supposed to happen, it would have happened.

When I was leaving the auditorium at the end of one of my lectures, someone shouted out, You've been lucky! That's right, I thought, I've had more luck than any man deserves.

Su cuique mrs fingunt fortnam. (Cornelius Nepos

Books have a way of finding their way into our lives, usually, right when we need them the most.

I realize that while people may indeed fail me and turn away, there is an underlying goodness to the Universe which brings to me new friends and new situations. These gifts heal and soothe me. I see the merciful hand of providence despite my pain.

Msabu's bleeding. She does not have this ox. This lion is hungry. He does not have this ox. This wagon is heavy. It doesn't have this ox. God is happy, msabu. He plays with us.

On observing 1963 America for the first time, the author says that organization and standardization to a certain degree compete with divine providence.

In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man uncapable of holding any public station; for, since kings avow themselves to be the deputies of Providence.

The man upstairs is pushing the buttons, and if your name happens to be on that button, well, thank you.

Every man should stay within his own fortune. [Lat., Intera fortunam quisque debet manere suam.]

By the divine providence [animals] are intended for man's use... Hence it is not wrong for man to make use of them, either by killing or in any other way whatsoever.

God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money, Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.

Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.

Every man's life is a plan of God.