Quotes About Providence

Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and the decrees of God.

For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself.

To little men, gods send little things.

Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other for it than heaven itself.

A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.

Man may his fate foresee, but not prevent. 'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.

There is nothing wrong with God's plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.

For man plans, but God arranges.

Truly God was good, to make man so blind.

Nothing happens to man without the permission of God.

How dark are all the ways of god to man!

What else is chance but the rude stone which receives its life from the sculptor's hand? Providence gives us chance, and man must mould it to his own designs.

Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events.

God's ways are more than Man's arithmetic.

Man proposes, but God blocks the game.

Man appoints, and God disappoints.

What men call accident is God's own part.

Man plans. God laughs.

Never to be cast away are the gifts of the gods, magnificent, which they give of their own will, no man could have them for wanting them.

The Providence that watches over the affairs of men works out of their mistakes, at times, a healthier issue than could have been accomplished by their wisest forethought.

Humility accepts that God places us in the right place at every single moment, not a moment to soon and not a moment too late.

I shovel [money] out, and God shovels it back...but God has a bigger shovel!

God gave me my money.

God speaks of his children shining best in ways that only he can provide. The heavens lift one as a golden child while the flesh lowers one to a child with gold.