Destruction Quote by Edith Wharton

Providence is wiser than you, and you may be confident it has suited all things better to your eternal good than you could do…

— John Flavel

Providence has fixed the limits of human enjoyment by immovable boundaries, and has set different gratifications at such a distance from each other, that…

— 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

As a general rule, Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Providence seems to look after the chumps of this world; and, personally, I'm all for it.

— Anonymous

“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

The ways of Providence cannot be reasoned out by the finite mind ... I cannot fathom them, yet seeking to know them is the…

— Selma Lagerlöf

Providence has at all times been my only dependence, for all other resources seemed to have failed us.

— George Washington

I believe in Providence and I believe Providence to be just. Therefore I believe that Providence always rewards the strong, the industrious, and the…

— Adolf Hitler

We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence.

— Vera Brittain

The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world. Providence has…

— Samuel Johnson

Providence is like a curious piece of tapestry made of a thousand shreds, which, single, appear useless, but put together, they represent a beautiful…

— John Flavel