Providence Quotes · Page 3

The whole concept of providence is that God knows everything about what we do.

— R. C. Sproul

Now, said I aloud, My dear Father's Words are come to pass: God's Justice has overtaken me, and I have none to…

— Daniel Defoe

You may look upon some providences once and again, and see little or nothing in them, but look "seven times," that is,…

— John Flavel

[D]ivine Providence... keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul...

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and…

— Victor Hugo

The god of the world is the gold and the silver. The world worships this god. It is all-powerful to them, though…

— Lorenzo Snow

The gods give to mortals not everything at the same time.

— Homer

The boundless stores of Providence are engaged for the support of the believer.

— Charles Spurgeon

We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus!

— John Adams

When folk have set before them a true purpose and then pursue it unmoved with bravery and courage, when they withstand with…

— Adolf Hitler

“All God’s children have shoes.”

— Stephen King

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

No life can surpass that of a man who quietly continues to serve God in the place where providence has placed him.

— Charles Spurgeon

Do I learn through dark providences, or simply seem relieved when they are over?

— Sinclair B. Ferguson

Highest Providence often works a wonderful miracle: that of having evil men make others who are evil to become good.

— Severinus of Noricum

Theirs is the mystery of continuous creation and all that providence implies: the uncertainty of vision, the horror of the fixed, the…

— Annie Dillard

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

They [the Founding Fathers] were intent upon establishing a Christian commonwealth in accordance with the principle of self-government. They were an inspired…

— Calvin Coolidge

Let us be convinced that nothing can happen to us apart from the providence of God.

— Dorotheus of Gaza

In conclusion I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted…

— Zachary Taylor

Of all the gifts that wise Providence grants us to make life full and happy, friendship is the most beautiful.

— Epicurus

Before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor…

— James Monroe

We live in a new and exceptional age. America is another word for Opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Concerning all acts of initiative there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the…

— Steven Pressfield