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Quotes About Providence

Who knows what tomorrow will bring Tomorrow is in the hands of God Tomorrow will be a lovely day.
~ James Clavell
I have passed days thinking of these matters, out in the silent woods, and I have come to the opinion, boy, that as Providence rules all things, no gift is bestowed without some wise and reasonable end.
~ James Fenimore Cooper
Nothing is easier to us who pass our time in the great school of Providence than to l'arn its lessons.
~ James Fenimore Cooper
Judith:And where, then, is your sweetheart, Deerslayer? Deerslayer: She's in the forest, Judith - hanging from the boughs of the trees, in a soft rain - in the dew on the open grass - the clouds that float about in the blue heavens - the birds that sing in the woods - the sweet springs where I slake my thirst - and in all the other glorious gifts that come from God's Providence!
~ James Fenimore Cooper
?uo sam ve? šumu gdje jau?e poput ?ovjeka koji se na?e u nevolji; slušao sam kako vjetar pjeva svoju pjesmu me?u granjem drve?a; slušao sam munju kako praska poput upaljena grmlja, kad bljuje iskre i rašljaste plamenove, i sve mi se to ?inilo tek kao volja Onoga koji drži sve stvari u svojoj ruci.
~ James Fenimore Cooper
Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.
~ Wilhelm von Humboldt
God will certainly care for all His creation.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
God is the captain of our lives, sometimes He diverts our plans and our ideas, let Him do so because he will never let us do something daft.
~ Euginia Herlihy
Divine providence for next dimension is a natural as rest, food and water are to our natural bodies. Rest, Arise and Eat for the challenges ahead of you are too great for you.
~ Dr. Lucas D. Shallua
Counting your chickens before they hatch is only wise if God has told you how many will survive.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
I am being taken care of by a higher being than myself or my coaches or my training staff.
~ Rebecca Lobo
Since therefore all things are ordered in subserviency to the good of man, they are so ordered by Him that made both man and them.
~ Stephen Charnock
I am not sure that God always knows who are his great men; he is so very careless of what happens to them while they live.
~ Mary Hunter Austin
If by saying that all men are born equal, you mean that they are equally born, it is true, but true in no other sense; birth, talent, labor, virtue, and providence, are forever making differences
~ David Eugene Edwards
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
~ Quintilian
Highest Providence often works a wonderful miracle: that of having evil men make others who are evil to become good.
~ Severinus of Noricum
God laughs at men's plans.
~ Larry Gatlin
What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.
~ Karl Barth
The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.
~ Marquis de Sade
Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.
~ Robert Greene
Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.
~ Honore de Balzac
Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.
~ Isaac Barrow
Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
~ Victor Hugo
As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.
~ George Eliot