Providence Quotes
397 quotes by 269 authors
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I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination…
— John Adams
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
— Otto von Bismarck
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I knew I had to get out of Boston and stop making movies there, at least for one movie, otherwise no one would ever consider…
— Ben Affleck
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I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with whom I desired…
— Donald Cargill
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What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked up…
— Horace Mann
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Chance is the providence of adventurers.
— Laurence Sterne
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When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand, and…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and…
— Richard Rumbold
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If, unable to solve the mysteries of Providence, we plunge into Atheism, we only increase a thousand fold the darkness by which we are surrounded
— Charles Hodge
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I never lost my belief, in the midst of setbacks which were not spared me during my period of struggle. Providence has had the last…
— Adolf Hitler
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...as soon as we examine suicide from the standpoint of religion we immediately see it in its true light. We have been placed in this…
— Immanuel Kant
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I do not believe that the Constitution was the offspring of inspiration, but I am as satisfied that it is as much the work of…
— Benjamin Rush
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A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size, or it is not the door that providence means for him.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Such a man the times have demanded, and such, in the providence of God was given us. But he is gone. Let us strive to…
— Abraham Lincoln
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We Americans have faith in ourselves, but not in ourselves alone. We do not know-we do not claim to know all the ways of Providence,…
— George W. Bush
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Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events.
— George Santayana
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The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred...unforeseen incidents…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Who Wrote These Providence Quotes
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