Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence… — George Santayana 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
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
Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, the Creator of the Universe. That He governs it by His Providence. That… — Benjamin Franklin 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
Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for… — Isaac Barrow 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
Foresight is good when it is subject to the latter, but it becomes excessive when we are in a hurry to avoid… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
In discourse more sweet; For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense. Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more… — John Milton Copy Share Image
My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest;… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“We may define God’s providence as follows: God is continually involved with all created things in such a way that he (1) keeps… — Voddie Baucham Jr 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
Mike Stanton is our preeminent aficionado and raconteur of Rhode Island’s flamboyantly criminal political follies, and The Prince of Providence is the… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
Under the blessings of Divine Providence ... It becomes us in humility to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of… — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
WHEREAS it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful… — 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
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
... 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
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
“If a man were to sow a field, he could not excuse his neglect by saying that it would be useless to… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
In reality, good and evil do not exist, because Divine Providence created nothing that is bad and disharmonious; this is only a… — Franz Bardon Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the cultural Christianity needs to become full-on no-excuses Christianity. You need light to fight the dark. It's the oldest story in… — Caspar Vega 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
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
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
Whatever our place allotted to us by Providence that for us is the post of honor and duty. God estimates us, not… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
The axle of the wheels of the chariot of Providence is Infinite Love, and Gracious Wisdom is the perpetual charioteer. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Providence so orders the case, that faith and prayer come between our wants and supplies, and the goodness of God may be… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
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 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
Perhaps out inactivity is not so much waiting on God as it is an expression of the fear of man, the love… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
The quiet life is by no means the greatest life. Some characters can only reach the highest standard of spirituality by the… — F.B. Meyer 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
God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money, Pride made the devil, and the devil made… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
God sometimes washes the eyes of His children with tears in order that they may read aright His providence and His commandments. — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
Each day millions of our citizens approach our Maker on bended knee, seeking His grace and giving thanks for the many blessings… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
