Quotes About Providence

This is the goddess Fortuna. She brought luck - or took it away. But you'd put up with whatever she did. Because when she decided to favour you, it made everything worthwhile

Luck is opportunity meeting up with preparation. So you must prepare yourself to be lucky.

Some folk want their luck buttered.

I think living the blessed life is the luck of the draw.

God moves in mysterious ways, His wonders to perform.

Luck favors the prepared," Pasteur said

Luck favors the prepared," Pasteur

positive Black Swans have a necessary first step: you need to be exposed to them. Many people do not realize that they are getting a lucky break in life when they get it. If

chance favors the prepared

But, all this while, I was giving myself very unnecessary alarm. Providence had mediated better things for me than I could possibly imagine for myself.

Human beings owe a debt of love to one another because there is no other method of paying the debt of love and care which all of us owe to providence.

As a general rule, Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers.

Or this:—that the whole universe, her own sex and yours, and Providence, or Destiny, to boot, make common cause against the woman who swerves one hair's breadth out of the beaten track.

A kind Providence has so skilfully adapted sex to sex and the mass of individuals to each other, that, with certain obvious exceptions, any male and female may be moderately happy in the married state.

Bigotry; self-conceit; an insolent curiosity; a meddlesome temper; a cold-blooded criticism, founded on a shallow interpretation of half-perceptions; a monstrous scepticism in regard to any conscience or any wisdom, except one's own; a most irreverent propensity to thrust Providence aside, and substitute one's self in its awful place,—out of these, and other motives as miserable as these, comes your idea of duty!

When God's in it, the job gets done.

The mind of man plans his way, but the LORD directs his steps. PROVERBS 16:9

God not only moves in mysterious ways, He moves in mundane days.

Mark it down in permanent ink: God is always at work.

Howard Phillips Lovecraft of Providence, Rhode Island, for cultivating a florid and overblown prose style that covered the entire spectrum from purple to ultraviolet and took sixteen volumes of interminable epistles to get to the point [...]

Nothing touches me that doesn't first pass through the hands of my Heavenly Father, nothing.

Praise bounteous providence if you will that grants even an ogre a tiny glow-worm tenderness encapsulated in icy caverns of a cruel heart or else despair for in the very germ of that kindred love is lodged the perpetuity of evil

What if he is the one who brought her to me?

God has never made a mistake. Ever.