Quotes About Providence

Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.

Man thinks, God directs.

When the real history of the world is written, it will show god's dealings with men, and the place the gospel has played in the rise and fall of nations.

I would much rather be the trusting child of a rich Father, than a beggar at the door of worldly men.

I feel that I am a man of destiny.

Let us not fail him; do not fear that he will fail you. And if some time he should fail you, it will be for a greater good. The

Oh gran ganancia, no querer ganar por nuestro parecer para no temer pérdida, pues nunca permite Dios la tenga el bien mortificado, sino para ganar más!

What will He not give Who so much loves giving and can give all that He will?

His secrets are hidden deep; but all that he does will be best for us, without the slightest doubt.

Shall He to thee His aid refuse Who clothes the swan in dazzling white, Who robes in green the parrot bright, The peacocks decks in rainbow hues?*

Man proposes, but God disposes.

What I have given, I can take away and restore when it pleases Me. What I give remains Mine, and thus when I take it away I take nothing that is yours, for every good gift and every perfect gift is Mine.

I answer that, Each man has an angel guardian appointed to him. This rests upon the fact that the guardianship of angels belongs to the execution of Divine providence concerning men.

Nature is the art of God.

These are O Lord the humble desires of my most reasonable ambition and all I dare call happinesse on earth: wherein I set no rule or limit to thy hand or providence. Dispose of me according to the wisdome of thy pleasure. Thy will bee done, though in my owne undoing.

We cannot hope to live so long in our names, as some have done in their persons, one face of Janus holds no proportion unto the other. 'Tis too late to be ambitious. The great mutations of the world are acted, or time may be too short for our designes...We whose generations are ordained in this setting part of time, are providentially taken off from such imaginations.

God foreknows the use of free will, yet this foreknowledge does not determine events. Rather, what God foreknows is determined by what happens, part of which is affected by free will.

As good Archbishop Loménie was wont to say: 'There are so many accidents; and it needs but one to save us.'—How many to destroy us?

his bed was written by an invisible deity

What is best and most necessary usually happens.

There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.

God has given me so many things along the way - a lot of stuff that I had no control over. God's had his hand in everything I've been able to accomplish.

There is no doubt that I was blessed with a considerable amount of luck.

The tears of God are the meaning of history.