Providence Quotes

397 quotes by 269 authors

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
There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America. — Otto von Bismarck
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
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
What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children? — Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
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
Chance is the providence of adventurers. — Laurence Sterne
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
Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid. — Edward McKendree Bounds
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
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
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
...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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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