Providence Quotes - Page 11

• Benito Mussolini had barely seized power in Italy before the Vatican made an official treaty with him, known as the Lateran Pact of 1929. Under the terms of this deal, Catholicism became the only recognized religion in Italy, with monopoly powers over matters such as birth, marriage, death, and education, and in return urged its followers to vote for Mussolini's party. Pope Pius XI described II Duce (“the leader”) as “a man sent by providence.”

  Christopher Hitchens

  Party, Men, Europe

  "God Is Not Great".

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• In reality, good and evil do not exist, because Divine Providence created nothing that is bad and disharmonious; this is only a human concept. From the hermetic point of view, one type of being has to bring forth positive influences, whereas another type has to bring forth negative influences. In an astral respect these beings are the tools of the effects on our physical world. They are also the cause of all effects in the astral body of every human being, whether they are initiated or not.

  Franz Bardon

  Reality, Views, Evil

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• Those circumstances, which to the dim eye of Jacob's faith wore a hue so somber, were at that very moment developing and perfecting the events which were to shed around the evening of his life the halo of a glorious and cloudless sunset. All things were working together for his good! And so, troubled soul, the "much tribulation" will soon be over, and as you enter the "kingdom of God" you shall then see, no longer "through a glass darkly" but in the unshadowed sunlight of the Divine presence, that "all things" did "work together" for your personal and eternal good.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Sunset, Eye, Glasses

  Arthur W. Pink (2001). “A. W. Pink's Studies in the Scriptures, 1922-23, Vol. 01 of 17”, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Sometimes God makes use of instruments for good to His people, who designed nothing but evil and mischief to them. Thus Joseph's brethren were instrumental to his advancement in that very thing in which they designed his ruin (Gen. 50:20).

  John Flavel

  Christian, People, Evil

  John flavel, Rev Terry Kulakowski (2017). “The Mystery of Providence”, p.140, Lulu.com

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• We asked for God's help; and now, in this shining outcome, in this magnificent triumph of good over evil, we should thank God.

  George H. W. Bush

  Evil, Shining, Presidential

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• When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Mind, Atheism, Prejudice

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• We of the United States of America consider ourselves blessed. We have much to give thanks for. But the gift of providence that we really cherish is that we were given as our neighbors on this great, wonderful continent, the people and the nation of Canada.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Blessed, People, Giving

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1967".

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• Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Dark, Walks

  Oliver Cromwell (1859). “Oliver Cromwell's letters and speeches: including the supplement to the first edition; with elucidations”, p.303

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• There is a Ruler above, and His Providence guides all things. He is our Friend and has plenty of work for all His people to do. It is such a blessing and a privilege to be led into His work instead of into the service of the hard taskmasters - the Devil and sin.

  David Livingstone

  Blessing, People, Devil

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• There is a sort of economy in Providence that one shall excel where another is defective, in order to make men more useful to each other, and mix them in society.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Order, Society

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1837). “The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume”, p.189

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• I am Providence, and Providence is myself - together, indissolubly as one, we stand thro' the ages; a fixt monument set aeternally in the shadow of Durfee's ice-clad peak!

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Ice, Shadow, Age

  Letter to James F. Morton (16 May 1926), in "Lord of a Visible World: An Autobiography in Letters" edited by S. T. Joshi, (p. 192), 2000.

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• Through heaven and earth
  God's will moves freely, and I follow it,
  As color follows light. He overflows
  The firmamental walls with deity,
  Therefore with love; His lightnings go abroad,
  His pity may do so, His angels must,
  Whene'er He gives them charges.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Wall, Moving, Angel

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “The Poetical Works of”, p.28

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• Our whole life can go on in observation of the laws of nature, if we gain dominion over our desires from the beginning and if we do not kill, by various means of a perverse art, the human offspring, born according to the designs of divine providence; for these women who, in order to hide their immorality, use abortive drugs which expel the child completely dead, abort at the same time their own human feelings.

  Clement of Alexandria

  Art, Children, Mean

  "Paedagogus 2". Book by Clement of Alexandria, (circa 210).

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• Providence has fixed the limits of human enjoyment by immovable boundaries, and has set different gratifications at such a distance from each other, that no art or power can bring them together. This great law it is the business of every rational being to understand, that life may not pass away in an attempt to make contradictions consistent, to combine opposite qualities, and to unite things which the nature of their being must always keep asunder.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Distance, Law

  Samuel Johnson, William Page (1860). “Life and Writings”, p.148

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• It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in providence.

  Honore de Balzac

  Believe, Men, Facts

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• Always receive with equal contentment from God's hand either consolations or sufferings, peace or distress, health or illness. Ask nothing, refuse nothing, but always be ready to do and to suffer anything that comes from His Providence.

  Teresa Margaret of the Sacred Heart

  Hands, Suffering, Contentment

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• Providence has done, and I am persuaded is disposed to do, a great deal for us; but we are not to forget the fable of Jupiter and the countryman.

  George Washington

  Jupiter, Done, Fables

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.57

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• Whatever our place allotted to us by Providence that for us is the post of honor and duty. God estimates us, not by the position we are in, but by the way in which we fill it.

  Tryon Edwards

  Honor, Way, Duty

  Tryon Edwards (1853). “The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors”, p.208

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• As for Hitler, his professed religion unhesitatingly juxtaposed the God-Providence and Valhalla. Actually his god was an argument at a political meeting and a manner of reaching an impressive climax at the end of speeches.

  Albert Camus

  Political, Atheism, Valhalla

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• Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss And mad'st it pregnant: What is in me dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the heighth of this great Argument I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.

  John Milton

  God, Heart, Dark

  John Milton (2013). “Paradise Lost Simplified!: Includes Modern Translation, Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index”, p.9, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The folly of Interpreters has been, to foretell times and things by this Prophecy, as if God designed to make them Prophets. By this rashness they have not only exposed themselves, but brought the Prophecy also into contempt.
  The design of God was much otherwise. He gave this and the Prophecies of the Old Testament, not to gratify mens curiosities by enabling them to foreknow things, but that after they were fulfilled they might be interpreted by the event, and his own Providence, not the Interpreters, be then manifested thereby to the world.

  Isaac Newton

  Men, Design, Curiosity

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• Riches are oft by guilt and baseness earn'd;
  Or dealt by chance to shield a lucky knave,
  Or throw a cruel sunshine on a fool.
  But for one end, one much-neglected use,
  Are riches worth your care; (for nature's wants
  Are few, and without opulence supplied;)
  This noble end is, to produce the soul;
  To show the virtues in their fairest light;
  To make humanity the minister
  Of bounteous Providence; and teach the breast
  The generous luxury the gods enjoy.

  John Armstrong

  Sunshine, Light, Luxury

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• The fact that Abraham Lincoln ever, ever became President is either a freak accident of history... or destiny; God's providence to America.

  Bill Oberst Jr.

  Destiny, America, President

  Source: www.chud.com

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• Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Action, Thinker

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• Surely it is a matter of joy, that your faith in Jesus has been preserved; the Comforter that should relieve you is not far from you. But as you are a Christian, in the name of that Saviour, who was filled with bitterness and made druken with wormwood, I conjre you to have recourse in frequent prayer to 'his God and your God,' the God of mercies, and father of all comfort. Your poor father is, I hope, almost senseless of the calamity; the unconscious instrument of Divine Providence knows it not, and your mother is in heaven.

  Charles Lamb

  Christian, Mother, Jesus

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (1935). “The Letters of Charles Lamb: To which are Added Those of His Sister, Mary Lamb. Edited by E.V. Lucas”

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