Nor bird nor beast Could make me wish for anything this day, Being old, but that the old alone might die, And… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Unless we lay our course in accordance with this principle, the great power for good in the world with which we have… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
If God has given His Son to die for us, let us beware of doubting His kindness and love in any painful… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty — Simon Bolivar Copy Share Image
In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man uncapable of holding any public station; for, since kings avow… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
For when a people is not willing or able to fight for its existence- Providence in its eternal justice has decreed that… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“How pleasant to float along the stream of providence! There is no more blessed way of living than a life of dependence… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I believe that we are conforming to the divine order and the will of Providence when we are doing even indifferent things… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
All the dark, intricate, puzzling providences at which we were sometimes so offended...we shall [one day] see to be to us, as… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
To the dim and bewildered vision of humanity, God's care is more evident in some instances than in others; and upon such… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The ways of heaven are dark and intricate, Puzzled in mazes, and perplex'd with errors; Our understanding traces them in vain, Lost… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Divine Providence is never wanting in things undertaken at Its command. Even though the whole world should rise up and destroy us,… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
“Abraham Lincoln suffered through depression through his life and then suffered through the pain of conducting a civil war, and emerged with… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to the height of this great argument I may… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Deeply versed in history, [John Adams] said over and over that America had no special providence, no special role in history, that… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
My mother - neither one of my parents went to college. My mother, after her four children had grown up, went back… — Tad Devine Copy Share Image
What is called chance is the instrument of Providence and the secret agent that counteracts what men call wisdom, and preserves order… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
These reflections made me very sensible of the goodness of Providence to me, and very thankful for my present condition, with all… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
... Providence conducts us with so much kindness through the different periods of our life, that we scarcely feel the change; our… — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
In his address of 19 September 1796, given as he prepared to leave office, President George Washington spoke about the importance of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him, we think, that… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Providence has fixed the limits of human enjoyment by immovable boundaries, and has set different gratifications at such a distance from each… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
... we should not worry about clothes or food? Such anxiety is a mark of? unbelievers, who reject the providence of the… — Evagrius Ponticus Copy Share Image
The more serious poetry of the race has a philosophical structure of thought. It contains beliefs and conceptions in regard to the… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done,… — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all. — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
The fact that Abraham Lincoln ever, ever became President is either a freak accident of history... or destiny; God's providence to America. — Bill Oberst Jr Copy Share Image
I believe that Providence would never have allowed us to see the victory of the Movement if it had the intention after… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it… — James Otis Copy Share Image
“Inspired action comes from the guidance of Spirit, not ego. When in doubt, don’t. Inspired action is responsive, not reactive.” — Annette Vaillancourt Copy Share Image
I believe in Providence and I believe Providence to be just. Therefore I believe that Providence always rewards the strong, the industrious,… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England. — Horace Porter Copy Share Image
I knew I had to get out of Boston and stop making movies there, at least for one movie, otherwise no one… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
Do not fight against Providence; nor bring more heavy weather to the storm. Face what is already there. — Menander Copy Share Image
Highest Providence often works a wonderful miracle: that of having evil men make others who are evil to become good. — Severinus of Noricum Copy Share Image
[W]isdom consists in following Providence step by step. And you can be sure of the truth of a maxim which seems paradoxical,… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
The moment we recognize God as supreme in power and infinitely good and loving toward all His intelligent creatures, that moment we… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image