Sometimes God makes use of instruments for good to His people, who designed nothing but evil and mischief to them. Thus Joseph's… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Down the winding cavern we groped our tedious way, till a void boundless as the nether sky appeared beneath us, and we… — William Blake Copy Share Image
God is not only to be known in His blessed and incomprehensible being, for this is something which is reserved for His… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I do not know all of the providences of the Lord, but I do know that he permits false doctrine to be… — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is… — Thomas Cole Copy Share Image
I believe very profoundly in an over-ruling Providence, and I do not fear that any real plans can be thrown off the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear, and feels the pride of a creator… — Ambrose Bierce 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
Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate… — James K. Polk 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
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
“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there… — William Hutchison Murray 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
I am not engaged to Christianity by decent forms, or saving ordinances; it is not usage, it is not what I do… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Providence has ordained that I should be the greatest liberator of humanity. I am freeing man from the restraints of an intelligence… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“I have passed days thinking of these matters, out in the silent woods, and I have come to the opinion, boy, that… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
More than once I was tormented by the thought that if Providence had put me in the place of the incapable of… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
About the twenty-third year of my age, I had many fresh and heavenly openings, in respect to the care and providence of… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
Earthly providence is a travesty of justice on any other theory than that it is a preliminary stage, which is to be… — Randolph Sinks Foster Copy Share Image
We just did a show in Providence, Rhode Island, and we got three puppy shots before we even got on the air,… — Jerry Lawler Copy Share Image
Providence had a graduate assistant job opening. They asked me if I wanted to apply, and I applied. That break right there… — Jeff Van Gundy Copy Share Image
The saints are like the stars. In his providence Christ conceals them in a hidden place that they may not shine before… — Anthony of Padua Copy Share Image
If it were not for my firm belief in an overruling Providence, it would be difficult for me, in the midst of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
God's providence is not in baskets lowered from the sky, but through the hands and hearts of those who love him. The… — George Arthur Buttrick Copy Share Image
Remember, remember, the Fifth of November, the Gunpowder Treason and Plot. I know of no reason why the Gunpowder Treason should ever… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
In fact Plotinus does believe in divine providence, though when he talks about divine providence, he talks about that providence being exercised… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
“Providence is not the same thing as God’s foreknowledge or prescience. Foreknowledge is His ability to look down the corridors of time… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Would all, who cherish such wild wishes, but look around them, they would oftenest find their sphere of duty, of prosperity, and… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
God smiles as He has always smiled; Ere suns and moons could wax and wane, Ere stars were thundergirt, or piled The… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
When God is about to bestow some great blessing on His church, it is often His manner, in the first place, so… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“This is the question that is foremost in the minds of modern men and women. In other words, they want to know… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Theirs is the mystery of continuous creation and all that providence implies: the uncertainty of vision, the horror of the fixed, the… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the… — Sallust 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 no action of man in this life that is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences as… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The providence of God is subordinate to creation; and it is, therefore, necessary that it should not impinge against creation, which it… — Jacobus Arminius Copy Share Image
