Quotes About Providence

There are Black nuns here?" Seeing the wonder on his face, she laughed softly. "Yes, Steele. They're the Sisters of the Holy Family. They've been here since before I was born. The Oblate Sisters of Providence in Maryland are also Black, and their order is much older.

Nothing was going to happen to any of them that was a surprise to their heavenly Father.

APPETITE, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question.

In learning how God speaks to us I've also learned that besides unusual coincidences

As an overruling providence may succeed our wishes, let us rear an offspring in every respect worthy to fill the most illustrious stations of their predecessors.

Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.

Sometimes God writes straightforward in twisted lines.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves as well. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen accidents, meetings and material assistance that no one could have dreamed would come their way. Whatever you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now. —Goethe, by attribution

If you participate in life, you don't see it clearly: you suffer from it too much or enjoy it too much. The artist, to my way of thinking, is a monstrosity, something outside nature. All the misfortunes Providence inflicts on him come from his stubborness in denying that maxim.

Every ideal comes from us as do all the amenities of life, in order to make our existence as simple reproducers, for which divine Providence solely intended us, less monotonous and less hard.

and you may know how little God thinks of money by observing on what bad and contemptible characters he often bestows it. Thomas Guthrie

I am Providence.

From a private hospital for the insane near Providence, Rhode Island, there recently disappeared an exceedingly singular person.

Etienne's son Paul, a surly fellow whose erratic conduct had probably provoked the riot which wiped out the family, was particularly a source of speculation; and though Providence never shared the witchcraft panics of her Puritan neighbours, it was freely intimated by old wives that his prayers were neither uttered at the proper time nor directed toward the proper object.

If heaven ever wishes to grant me a boon, it will be a total effacing of the results of a mere chance which fixed my eye on a certain stray piece of shelf-paper.

Therefore, nothing happens in the world by chance. This having been established, it seems to follow that whatever is done in the world is done partly by divine agency and partly by our will.

In my life's chain of events nothing was accidental. Everything happened according to an inner need.

He who cares for the sparrows and numbers the hairs of our head, cannot possibly fail us.

Every man's life is a fairytale written by God's hand.

Every person's life is a fairytale written by God's fingers.

Man plans and God laughs

Man plans and God laughs," Myron said. Fat Gandhi smiled. "I like that one. Is that an American expression?" "Yiddish.

Men tracht und Gott lacht.

God, who is liberal in all his other gifts, shows us, by the wise economy of His providence, how circumspect we ought to be in the management of our time, for He never gives us two moments together.