Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
On Earth, God has placed no more than two powers, and as there is in Heaven but one God, so is there… — Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor Copy Share Image
People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
We are apt to believe in Providence so long as we have our own way; but if things go awry, then we… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Woman! thou loveliest gift that here below Man can receive, or Providence bestow. — Winthrop Mackworth Praed Copy Share Image
And Burke, could he see our century, never would concede that a consumption-society, so near to suicide, is the end for which… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But, all this while, I was giving myself very unnecessary alarm. Providence had mediated better things for me than I could possibly… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
In 1954, Pope Pius XI, of all people, sent some Vatican delegates on a trip to Libya with these written instructions: "Do… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Peoples which bastardize themselves, or let themselves be bastardized, sin against the will of eternal Providence. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Men have been led in dark paths, through the providence and dispensation of God. Why, surely it is not to be objected… — Oliver Cromwell Copy Share Image
And I saw that truly nothing happens by accident or luck, but everything by God's wise providence. If it seems to be… — Julian of Norwich Copy Share Image
America, the great liberator, is in desperate need of being liberated from itself -- from its own excesses and arrogance. And the… — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
Go, mark the matchless working of the power That shuts within the seed the future flower; Bids these in elegance of form… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size, or it is not the door that providence means… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Look around in the world, and you may see some in every place who are objects of pity, bereaved by sad accidents… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
All things are ordered by God, but His providence takes in our free agency, as well as His own sovereignty. — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
We begin life with the natural, next we come into the spiritual; but then, when we have truly received the kingdom of… — A. B. Simpson Copy Share Image
Providence has given human wisdom the choice between two fates: either hope and agitation, or hopelessness and calm. — Yevgeny Baratynsky Copy Share Image
If all my talents and powers were to be taken from me by some unscrutable Providence, and I had my choice of… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
That there is one God, who made all things. That he governs the world by his providence. That he might be worshipped… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
