Providence Quotes - Page 14

• 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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• 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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• We don't turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up. We draw strength from our victories, and we learn from our mistakes, but we keep our eyes fixed on that distant horizon, but we keep our eyes fixed on that distant horizon, knowing that Providence is with us, and that we are surely blessed to be citizens of the greatest nation on Earth.

  Barack Obama

  Mistake, Blessed, Eye

  Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

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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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• There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain ... Providence appears to protect such women, maybe out of astonishment.

  Margaret Atwood

  Pain, Fear, People

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Bluebeard's Egg”, p.112, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If Providence had not guided us I would often never have found these dizzy paths.  Thus, it is that we National Socialists have in the depths of our hearts our faith.  No man can fashion world history or the history of peoples unless upon his purpose and his powers there rests the blessing of this Providence.

  Adolf Hitler

  Fashion, Heart, Men

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• In this hour I would ask of the Lord God only this: that, as in the past, so in the years to come He would give His blessing to our work and our action, to our judgement and our resolution, that He will safeguard us from all false pride and from all cowardly servility, that he may grant to us to find the straight path which His Providence has ordained for the German people, and that he may ever give us the courage to do the right, never to falter, never to yield before any violence, before any danger.

  Adolf Hitler

  Pride, Past, Blessing

  Adolf Hitler (1942). “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939”

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking.

  Frank Herbert

  Destiny, Thinking, Support

  "Whipping Star". Book by Frank Herbert, "From The Wreave Commentary"; p. 136, 1969.

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• O SON OF MAN! My calamity is My providence, outwardly it is fire and vengeance, but inwardly it is light and mercy. Hasten thereunto that thou mayest become an eternal light and an immortal spirit. This is My command unto thee, do thou observe it.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Son, Men, Fire

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• What is called chance is the instrument of Providence and the secret agent that counteracts what men call wisdom, and preserves order and regularity, and continuation in the whole, for ... I firmly believe, notwithstanding all our complaints, that almost every person upon earth tastes upon the totality more happiness than misery; and therefore if we could correct the world to our fancies, and with the best intentions imaginable, probably we should only produce more misery and confusion.

  Horace Walpole

  Believe, Men, Order

  Horace Walpole (1904). “The letters of Horace Walpole: fourth earl of Orford”

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• There is a great Field-Marshal, my friend, who arrays our battalions; Let us to Providence trust, and abide and work in our stations.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Fields, My Friends, Stations

  Arthur Hugh Clough (1848). “The Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich: a long-vacation pastoral”, p.51

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• Men have been led in dark paths, through the providence and dispensation of God. Why, surely it is not to be objected to a man, for who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Dark, Men, Path

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill, Oliver Cromwell (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.64, Cambridge University Press

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• Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of heaven on a Country. As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes & effects providence punishes national sins, by national calamities.

  George Mason

  Country, Tyrants, Heaven

  "The Journal of the Debates in the Convention which Framed the Constitution of the United States, May-September, 1787", Volume 2, as recorded by James Madison, 1908.

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• Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.

  Abbe Pierre

  Training, Wells, Lays

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• What else is chance but the rude stone which receives its life from the sculptor's hand? Providence gives us chance, and man must mould it to his own designs.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Men, Hands, Giving

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• We mustn't be in a hurry to fix and choose our own lot; we must wait to be guided.

  George Eliot

  Waiting

  George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.80

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• When Providence favors, you can make a safe voyage on a twig.

  Publilius Syrus

  Favors, Safe, Voyages

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• I've always shrunk from usurping the functions of Providence, and when I have to exercise them I decidedly prefer that it shouldn't be on an errand of destruction.

  Edith Wharton

  Exercise, Errands, Destruction

  Edith Wharton (2016). “Tales of Men and Ghosts: American Literature”, p.141, VM eBooks

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