Affair Quote by Vincent de Paul

Providence The will of God acting together with human will. But he respects our will absolutely. He does not force. Love never forces. It…

— Michael O'Brien

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

— Vera Brittain

We must follow, not force Providence.

— William Shakespeare

Without any cant, does not Providence provide wonderfully for us?

— Isabel Burton

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

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

If it were not for my firm belief in an overruling Providence, it would be difficult for me, in the midst of such complications…

— Abraham Lincoln

We could almost believe that we are destined by Providence to an unsettled position on the globe, so invariably is a love of change…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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

“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

“I wish to be Providence myself, for I feel that the most beautiful, noblest, most sublime thing in the world, is to recompense and…

— Alexandre Dumas

Providence must call us and we must follow it, if we are to go forward confidently.

— Vincent de Paul