Death Quote by Jonathan Swift

I was for some time quite beside myself and could not believe that Providence could have required the presence of this indispensable man in…

— Joseph Haydn

Providence is but another name for natural law. Natural law itself would go out in a minute if it were not for the divine…

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

— Vera Brittain

Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by…

— George Washington

“And so sovereign Providence has often produced a remarkable effect--evil men making other evil men good. For some, when they think they suffer injustice…

— Boethius

Whenever we attempt to mend the scheme of Providence and to interfere in the Government of the world, we had need be very circumspect…

— Benjamin Franklin

Divine Providence is never wanting in things undertaken at Its command. Even though the whole world should rise up and destroy us, nothing could…

— Vincent de Paul

When great evils happen, I am in the habit of looking out for what good may arise from them as consolations to us, and…

— Thomas Jefferson

“It is commendable to wish to relieve human suffering, but surely the insane, like idiots and cripples, owe their state to Almighty Providence, and…

— Margaret Atwood

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

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