Quotes About Providence

There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will

What must be shall be.

There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.

There 's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 't is not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all. Since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is 't to leave betimes? Hamlet. V.2

There was an old saying about how God helped those who helped themselves. Preacher would have added that God watched over those who weren't damn fools to start with.

God can use the jawbone of an ass!

How are you off for drink? We have got everything in the world on board here. Can you catch?' and almost immediately a large bottle of champagne was thrown from the gunboat to the shore. It fell in the waters of the Nile, but happily where a gracious Providence decreed them to be shallow and the bottom soft. I nipped into the water up to my knees, and reaching down seized the precious gift which we bore in triumph back to our mess.

It is true Greek tragedy, with Chance as the ever ready hand-maid of Fate.

A mnie tak si? z?o?y?o, ?e jestem przy tobie. I doprawdy nie widz? w tym nic zwyczajnego.

Doubtless we owe it to a divine dispensation that our land is veined with silver; if we consider how many neighbouring states lie round us by land and sea and yet into none of them does a single thinnest vein of silver penetrate.

But I was kind of surprised that God would send a saver to me in such raggedy clothes.

There are no coincidences in God's providence.

I was ungrateful to Providence by not being happy; and, yet, does happiness always result from the gifts of intelligence? I tend to believe the contrary: one must pay for the gift of knowledge by wishing not to know...

There is no such thing as coincidence, only hitsuzen.

My daddy always said, 'Luck never gives, it lends

Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.

Darwin was led to his agnostic naturalism as much by the misery which he observed in the world as by the facts which scientific investigation brought under his notice. There was too much strife and injustice in the world for him to believe in providence and a predetermined goal. A world so full of cruelty and pain he could not reconcile with the omniscience, the omnipotence, the goodness of God.

Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.

It is in the irony of Providence that the more man comes to control the material world about him, the more does he lose control over the effects of his action; and it is when he is remaking the world most speedily that he knows least whither he is driving.

What does that mean?" The Thistlewitch smiled. "Time will tell. It always does.

Surely these things lie on the knees of the gods.

Henry Clay is dead. His long and eventful life is closed. Our country is prosperous and powerful; but could it have been quite all it has been, and is, and is to be, without Henry Clay? Such a man the times have demanded, and such in the providence of God was given us. But he is gone. Let us strive to deserve, as far as mortals may, the continued care of Divine Providence, trusting that in future national emergencies He will not fail to provide us the instruments of safety and security.

We are only blessed with what God gives us.

God may not give us what we want, but in his loving-kindness, he will give us everything we need.