Providence Quotes
397 Providence quotes by 262 unique authors
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It is day by day that we go forward; today we are as we were yesterday and tomorrow we shall be like ourselves today. So…
— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
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Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Do your duty and leave the rest to Providence.
— Stonewall Jackson
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It was clear to me, as I glanced back over my earlier life, that a loving Providence watched over me, that all was directed for…
— Hans Christian Andersen
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There are times when words seem empty and only actions seem great. Such a time has come, and in the Providence of God America will…
— Woodrow Wilson
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Providence has at all times been my only dependence, for all other resources seemed to have failed us.
— George Washington
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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of…
— Samuel Johnson
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There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.
— R C Sproul
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If you, who are organised by Divine Providence for spiritual communion, refuse, and bury your talent in the earth, even though you should want natural…
— William Blake
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No life can surpass that of a man who quietly continues to serve God in the place where providence has placed him.
— Charles Spurgeon
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God's Providence controls the universe. It is present everywhere. Providence is the sovereign Logos of God, imprinting form on the unformed materiality of the world,…
— Anthony the Great
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God is not only to be known in His blessed and incomprehensible being, for this is something which is reserved for His saints in the…
— John Cassian
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...the wise providence of God orders our affairs in many different ways and lovingly bestows on each one of us what is appropriate and profitable…
— Gregory Palamas
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
— William Cowper
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God is the ever active providence, by whose power systems after systems are being evolved out of chaos, made to run for a time and…
— Swami Vivekananda
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We must mark God's providence leading us; and if providence tarries, tarry till providence comes
— Charles Spurgeon
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When we bless God for mercies, we usually prolong them. When we bless God for miseries, we usually end them. Praise is the honey of…
— Charles Spurgeon
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We have many responsibilities, and one cannot expect the full blessings of a kind Providence if he neglects any major duty. A man has duties…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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On accepting adversity in our lives: Always it is initiated by an act of will on our part; we set ourselves to believe in the…
— Margaret Clarkson
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When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.
— Knut Hamsun
Who Wrote These Providence Quotes
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