Providence Quotes - Page 12

• I have the grace of providence to be poor.

  Antonio de Oliveira Salazar

  Grace, Poor

  "Salazar and his time" by César de Oliveira, The Official Publisher, (p. 98), 1991.

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• Earthly providence is a travesty of justice on any other theory than that it is a preliminary stage, which is to be followed by rectifications. Either there must be a future, or consummate injustice sits upon the throne of the universe. This is the verdict of humanity in all the ages.

  Randolph Sinks Foster

  Justice, Humanity, Age

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• God -- if he really exist -- is good, alive, self-conscious, and governs all things according to his benevolent and holy providence; but the world shows no indications of such a benevolent and holy Providence. This earth appears to be a hell, or at best a planet condemned -- a sort of purgatory: it is filled with violence, tyranny and injustice, and yet God, if he exist, is absolute sovereign, and has willed that things should be as they are! -- Therefore there is no God.

  William Batchelder Greene

  God, Self, Alive

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• Behold, now, another providence of God. A ship comes into the harbor.

  William Bradford

  Ships, Harbors

  William Bradford (1952). “Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647”, p.112, Rutgers University Press

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• The Constitution enjoins an oath upon all the officers of the United States. This is a direct appeal to that God Who is the avenger of perjury. Such an appeal to Him is a full acknowledgement of His being and providence.

  Oliver Wolcott

  United States, Constitution, Perjury

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• You this day, gentlemen, assume new characters, enter into new relations, and consequently incur new duties. You have, by the favor of Providence and the attention of your friends, received a public education, the purpose whereof hath been to qualify you the better to serve your Creator and your country.

  William Samuel Johnson

  Country, Character, Gentleman

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• I only look to the gracious protection of the Divine Being whose strengthening support I humbly solicit, and whom I fervently pray to look down upon us all. May it be among the dispensations of His Providence to bless our beloved country with honors and with length of days; may her ways beways of pleasantness, and all her paths be peace.

  Martin Van Buren

  Country, Support, Honor

  Martin Van Buren (1969). “Martin Van Buren, 1782-1862: chronology-documents-bibliographical aids”

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• Humanity must accept that the food, the raw materials, the energy, the scientific knowledge and so on, belongs to everybody, that it is given by Divine providence for all peoples, the rich nations and what are called the developing nations. No one has the right to corner the goods of the world as is done today, whether that be oil or food or any of the things that we think are so important.

  Benjamin Creme

  Thinking, Oil, Humanity

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I still do find the prayers of the Kaddish quite moving, and I just substitute in my mind nature, although that's what the founders did in a lot of their documents, too. They substituted nature or providence for God. I think that's what I do in my head with Jewish God.

  Susan Jacoby

  Prayer, Moving, Thinking

  "'Strange Gods' Chronicles The History Of Secularism And Conversion". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 17, 2016.

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• Let us be convinced that nothing can happen to us apart from the providence of God.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Christian, Orthodox, Happens

  Saint Dorotheus (of Gaza) (1977). “Discourses and Sayings”

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• Bountiful as is the hand of Providence, its gifts are not so bestowed as to seduce us into indolence, but to rouse us to exertion.

  William Wilberforce

  Hands, Indolence, Seducing

  William Wilberforce (2005). “A Practical View of Preferred Christians”, p.15, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I'm not looking for anything. If you start looking for something specific, then you take providence right out of it. You can't completely control it. Otherwise you'd make the same kind of movie over and over again, which some people say I've done.

  Tom Hanks

  People, Done, Kind

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• Deeply versed in history, [John Adams] said over and over that America had no special providence, no special role in history, that Americans were no different from other peoples, that the United States was just as susceptible to viciousness and corruption as any other nation. In this regard, at least, Jefferson's vision has clearly won the day.

  Gordon S. Wood

  America, Vision, Special

  Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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• The more serious poetry of the race has a philosophical structure of thought. It contains beliefs and conceptions in regard to the nature of man and the universe, God and the soul, fate and providence, suffering, evil and destiny. Great poetry always has, like the higher religion, a metaphysical content. It deals with the same august issues, experiences and conceptions as metaphysics or first philosophy.

  Joseph Alexander Leighton

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Fate

  Joseph Alexander Leighton (1919). “The field of philosophy: an outline of lectures on introduction to philosophy”

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• In seasons of severe trial, the Christian has nothing on earth that he can trust to, and is therefore compelled to cast himself on God alone. When no human deliverance can avail, he must simply and entirely trust himself to the providence and care of God. Happy storm that wrecks a man on such a rock as this! O blessed hurricane that drives the soul to God--and God alone!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Blessed, Men

  C. H. Spurgeon (2006). “Morning by Morning”, p.244, Hendrickson Publishers

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• In this infinite space is placed our universe (whether by chance, by necessity, or by providence I do not now consider).

  Giordano Bruno

  Space, Atheism, Chance

  Dorothea Waley Singer, Giordano Bruno (1968). “Giordano Bruno; his life and thought: With annotated translation of his work, On the infinite universe and worlds”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• The sentences in the book of providence are sometimes long, and you must read a great way before you understand their meaning.

  Matthew Henry

  Book, Long, Way

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 280), 1895.

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• Christ's divinity accounts for His exaltation to the right hand of God, justifies the worship of angels and the confidence of mankind. It makes clear His right to the throne of the universe, and enables the mind to understand why He is exalted in providence, in grace, and in judgment. It is the unifying truth that harmonizes all other teachings of Christianity, and renders the entire system symmetrical and complete.

  George C. Lorimer

  Teaching, Angel, Hands

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert (p. 57), 1895.

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• I believe that Providence would never have allowed us to see the victory of the Movement if it had the intention after all to destroy us at the end.

  Adolf Hitler

  Believe, Victory, Movement

  Adolf Hitler “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939: An English Translation of Representative Passages Arranged Under Subjects and Edited by Norman H. Baynes”

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• There are four different theories concerning Divine Providence; they are all ancient, known from the time of the Prophets, when the true law was revealed to enlighten these dark regions.

  Maimonides

  Dark, Law, Different

  Moses Maimonides (2016). “Guide for the perplexed”, p.1078, Moses Maimonides

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• First Theory . There is no Providence at all for anything in the Universe; all parts of the Universe, the heavens and what they contain, owe their origin to accident and chance; there exists no being that rules and governs them or provides for them. This is the theory of Epicurus.

  Maimonides

  Heaven, Firsts, Chance

  Moses Maimonides, Aeterna Press (1948). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.454, Aeterna Press

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• Management [ Providence ], knowledge, and intention are not the same when ascribed to us and when ascribed to God.

  Maimonides

  Management, Intention

  Moses Maimonides, Aeterna Press (1948). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.471, Aeterna Press

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• Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms.
  [Ger., Die Gaben
  Kommen von oben herab, in ihren eignen Gestalten.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Peculiar, Form, Dies

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• Busy not yourself in looking forward to the events of to-morrow; but whatever may be those of the days Providence may yet assign you neglect not to turn them to advantage.

  Horace

  Events, May, Looking Forward

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• What is it to be rich? It is to have an assured income in excess of expenditures, and to have no occasion for anxiety for the morrow. It is to be above the necessity of living from hand to mouth. It is to be able (or to have grounds to insanely suppose one's self to be able) to live outside of God's providence.

  William Batchelder Greene

  Self, Hands, Anxiety

  William Batchelder Greene (1873). “A Letter to the Rev. Henry W. Foote, Minister of King's Chapel, in Vindication of the Poorer Class of the Boston Working-women”, p.6

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