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
“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
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
Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform. — Chinua Achebe 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
No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and… — George Washington 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
Concerning all acts of initiative there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
When I took off from Providence, my only professional aspiration was what it had always been: I wanted to be a sportscaster.… — Mike Greenberg Copy Share Image
He never believed in fate or providence, or the future being made by someone in the sky. Instead, at every instant, a… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
We Americans have faith in ourselves, but not in ourselves alone. We do not know-we do not claim to know all the… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“God's fundamental goal for believers is not to protect us from harm or suffering, to make us comfortable, or to benefit from… — Layton Talbert Copy Share Image
The desire for guidance, love, and support prompts men to form the social or moral conception of God. This is the God… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“We would either have a silent, a soft, a perfumed cross, sugared and honeyed with the consolations of Christ, or we faint;… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
Benito Mussolini had barely seized power in Italy before the Vatican made an official treaty with him. . . . Catholicism became… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Brought up a Presbyterian, indoctrinated from the Catechism, and being naturally of an inquiring mind, I fell a ready prey to the… — Charles Taze Russell Copy Share Image
Any father…must finally give his child up to the wilderness and trust to the providence of God. It seems almost a cruelty… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
It seems then, say I, that you leave politics entirely out of the question, and never suppose, that a wise magistrate can… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The promulgation of the great doctrines of religion, the being, and attributes, and providence of one Almighty God: the responsibility to him… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
“We may be in the way of our duty, and yet may meet with troubles, which Providence brings us into for the… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
When you lie down on your bed to sleep, remember with thanksgiving the blessings and the providence of God. — Anthony the Great Copy Share Image
It is not given to our weak intellects to understand the steps of Providence as they occur: we comprehend them only as… — George B. McClellan Copy Share Image
Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities, are the greatest cozenage men can put upon the Providence of God, and make… — Oliver Cromwell Copy Share Image
I believe God rules all by his divine providence and that the stars by his permission are instruments. — William Lilly Copy Share Image
I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I must not quarrel with the will Of highest dispensation, which herein, Haply had ends above my reach to know. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Providence has done, and I am persuaded is disposed to do, a great deal for us; but we are not to forget… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“If there be a fate that is sometimes cruel to me, there surely is a kind and merciful Providence which watches over… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
Charles Wyly was born Oct 13, 1933, in Lake Providence, La., and for a period lived with his family in a shack… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
A speckled cat and a tame hare Eat at my hearthstone And sleep there; And both look up to me alone For… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
That which is not allotted the hand cannot reach; what is allotted you will find wherever you may be. — Saadi Copy Share Image
There are still many people in America who regard depressions as acts of God. I think Keynes proved that the responsibility for… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The Providence that watches over the affairs of men works out of their mistakes, at times, a healthier issue than could have… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image