Last resort Quote by Aldous Huxley

The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence…

— Aldous Huxley

“My dear lady, in my experience of ill-doing, Providence leaves the work of conviction and chastisement to us mortals—and the process is often fraught…

— Agatha Christie

“Upon my word, just see how mortal men always put the blame on us gods! We are the source of evil, so they say…

— Homer

“I think this goes more to the idea of 'relentless irony' than 'divine providence.”

— Donna Tartt

“And I may not omit here a special work of God's providence. There was a proud and very profane young man [aboard the Mayflower],…

— William Bradford

“Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather,…

— Homer

“We degrade Providence too much by attributing our ideas to it out of annoyance at being unable to understand it.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“We may be in the way of our duty, and yet may meet with troubles, which Providence brings us into for the trial of…

— Matthew Henry

“When a mortal man breaks a people, it is always blamed on the gods.”

— S.M. White

“Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy Opinion against Providence; Call Imperfection what thou fancy'st such, Say, here he gives…

— Alexander Pope

All that is from the gods is full of Providence.

— Marcus Aurelius

The sentences in the book of providence are sometimes long, and you must read a great way before you understand their meaning.

— Matthew Henry