Compassion Quote by Laurence Sterne

“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

Look around in the world, and you may see some in every place who are objects of pity, bereaved by sad accidents of all…

— 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

Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

“What an inextricable and hopeless mix life would be if we had to manage it! How do the people who do not believe in…

— Pansy

These reflections made me very sensible of the goodness of Providence to me, and very thankful for my present condition, with all its hardships…

— Daniel Defoe

“In the eyes of the restless and the longing, Providence often appears to be worse than inscrutable: an unreliable Omnipotence given to haphazard whimsies…

— Booth Tarkington

To the dim and bewildered vision of humanity, God's care is more evident in some instances than in others; and upon such instances men…

— George MacDonald

“Providence is nothing more than a belief in God the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth, brought to bear on our present blessings…

— Kevin DeYoung

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the…

— Thornton Wilder

Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.

— Alexander Pope

Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?

— George Washington