Destiny Quote by Booth Tarkington

“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

Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.

— Alexander Pope

“A deal of people, Miss, are for trusting all to Providence; but I say Providence will not dispense with the means, though He often…

— Charlotte Brontë

“I wish to be Providence myself, for I feel that the most beautiful, noblest, most sublime thing in the world, is to recompense and…

— Alexandre Dumas

“How infinitely good that Providence is which has provided, in its government of mankind, such narrow bounds to his sight and knowledge of things;…

— Daniel Defoe

The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments.

— Samuel Johnson

The ways of Providence being inscrutable, and the justice of it not to be scanned by the shallow eye of humanity, nor to be…

— George Washington

“Once again was it proved that the designs of Providence are impenetrable and that the sinner, climbing out of the pit of his filthiness,…

— Gabriel Chevallier

“I would expostulate with myself why Providence should thus completely ruin His creatures, and render them so absolutely miserable; so without help, abandoned, so…

— Daniel Defoe

“A providence is shaping our ends; a plan is developing in our lives; a supremely wise and loving Being is making all things work…

— F.B. Meyer

Probably Providence has implanted peevishness and ill-temper in sick and old persons, in compassion to the friends or relations who are to survive; as…

— Laurence Sterne

“Wickedness never rests easily so, in a way, one might almost feel pity for the wicked, for they are destined to live their lives…

— John Connolly