Providence Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• Divine Providence is connected with Divine intellectual influence, and the same beings which are benefited by the latter so as to become intellectual, and to comprehend things comprehensible to rational beings, are also under the control of Divine Providence, which examines all their deeds with a view of rewarding or punishing them. ...the method of which our mind is incapable of understanding.

  Maimonides

  Views, Understanding, Intellectual

  "Guide for the Perplexed". Book by Maimonides, Ch.17, 1190.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the crackle of the bones of his prey in the coil of the anaconda-these are in the system, and our habits are like theirs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Snakes, Rude, Atheism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.78, Penguin

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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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• Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Running, Rocks, Way

  George Bernard Shaw (2004). “Heartbreak House”, p.204, 1st World Publishing

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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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• 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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• 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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• A speckled cat and a tame hare
  Eat at my hearthstone
  And sleep there;
  And both look up to me alone
  For learning and defence
  As I look up to Providence.

  William Butler Yeats

  Sleep, Cat, Responsibility

  William Butler Yeats, Glenn Harrington (2002). “William Butler Yeats”, p.40, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• Worry is an intrusion into God's providence.

  John Haggai

  Worry, Intrusion

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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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