Woman! thou loveliest gift that here below Man can receive, or Providence bestow. — Winthrop Mackworth Praed Copy Share Image
“The day is not over yet. You may still meet with Providence, who never gets up before noon.” — Henry Murger Copy Share Image
Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion'd strength. — John Milton Copy Share Image
The hand of Providence creeps among the stars, giving Slothrop the finger. — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Prayer is one of the necessary wheels of the machinery of providence. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose. — Oliver Cromwell Copy Share Image
The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions… — Richard Rumbold Copy Share Image
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Providence has given the United States the duty of extending Christian civilization. We come as ministering angels, not despots. — Knute Nelson Copy Share Image
Bountiful as is the hand of Providence, its gifts are not so bestowed as to seduce us into indolence, but to rouse… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Our lives are of great worth if we accept with good grace the situation Providence places us in, and go on living… — Takashi Nagai Copy Share Image
God is the ever active providence, by whose power systems after systems are being evolved out of chaos, made to run for… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As an overruling providence may succeed our wishes, let us rear an offspring in every respect worthy to fill the most illustrious… — Deborah Sampson Copy Share Image
I shall look for whatever success may attend my public service; and knowing that "except the Lord keep the city the watchman… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
How much in this world is charged to chance or fortune, or veiled under a more devout name, and accorded to Providence;… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The great Master Gardener, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, in a wonderful providence, with his own hand, planted me here,… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
Indeed, I should be very stupid or very thankless if I did not congratulate myself every hour of the day on the… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
When we bless God for mercies, we usually prolong them. When we bless God for miseries, we usually end them. Praise is… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Every occupation has its own honor before God. Ordinary work is a divine vocation or calling. In our daily work no matter… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of… — Imran Khan Copy Share Image
“The banana flavour of his accidental conception, and the banana theme of his accidental death, now all seemed to conspire against him… — Tom Conrad Copy Share Image
“It was thus that in 1940 [Hitler] represented a wave of the future. His greatest reactionary opponent, Churchill, was like King Canute,… — John Lukacs 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
It is easy to see things in retrospect. But I was ignorant then of everything but my own happiness, and I don’t… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections. Let these influencing powers… — Daniel Boone Copy Share Image
In a sermon entitled “God's Providence,” C. H. Spurgeon said, “Napoleon once heard it said, that man proposes and God disposes. 'Ah,'… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some would assert that Providence was at work shaking out its pockets in Humanity's lap. Other would argue for that mindless choreographer,… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
And now...farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude. I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
The Obedience of Children to their Parents is the Basis of all Government, and set forth as the measure of that Obedience… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Peoples which bastardize themselves, or let themselves be bastardized, sin against the will of eternal Providence. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“Nothing is easier to us who pass our time in the great school of Providence than to l’arn its lessons.” — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
But I must submit all my Hopes and Fears, to an overruling Providence, in which, unfashionable as the Faith may be, I… — John Adams Copy Share Image
If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, God speed her! She becomes our ally and partner in… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image