Providence Quotes - Page 24

• Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Humility, Looks, Remember

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• The man whom heaven helps has friends enough.

  Euripides

  Men, Heaven, Helping

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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• In the doctrine of Providence, we have a specific Christian confession exclusively possible through faith in Jesus Christ. This faith is no general, vague notion of Providence. It has a concrete focus: ‘If God is for us, who is against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely give us all things?’ (Rom.8:31, 32).

  G. C. Berkouwer

  Christian, Jesus, Son

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• [The adoption of the Constitution] will demonstrate as visibly the finger of Providence as any possible event in the course of human affairs can ever designate it.

  George Washington

  Adoption, Events, Constitution

  Jay A. Parry, Andrew M. Allison, George Washington (1991). “The real George Washington”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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• Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Perseverance, Challenges, Appreciated

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• Some would assert that Providence was at work shaking out its pockets in Humanity's lap. Other would argue for that mindless choreographer, Chance. Either way it was a simple thing: a lost diary fell into the hands of a soul-sick war hero on a train from Bombay to Jaipur just when he'd grown tired of the scenery and needed something to keep his thoughts from the minefield of his wretched thoughts. In such mild ways is the groundwork laid for first kisses and ruined lives.

  Laini Taylor

  War, Hero, Tired

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• Teaching in Providence and Oakland, I realized that the first thing is that it wasn't good enough to come in and assume that I had what my students needed in terms of knowledge and skills. I also had to show them that I was their ally. I had to show them that I was concerned about them, wanted to relate to them, and that I was fundamentally on their side.

  Pedro Noguera

  Teaching, Oakland, Skills

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• My mother - neither one of my parents went to college. My mother, after her four children had grown up, went back and got her high school equivalency degree at night, at Central High School in Providence, became a teacher's aide.

  Tad Devine

  Mother, Teacher, Children

  Source: www.politico.com

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• When I am told (by those who confuse predestination with God's providence) that God already knows who will be saved and who will be damned, and therefore anything we do is useless, I usually answer with four truths that the bible spells out for us:God wants that everyone be saved; No one is predestined to go to hell; Jesus died for everyone; and everyone is given sufficient graces for salvation.

  Gabriele Amorth

  Jesus, Grace, Want

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• We'll therefore relish with content, Whate'er kind providence has sent, Nor aim beyond our pow'r; For, if our stock be very small, 'Tis prudent to enjoy it all, Nor lose the present hour.

  Nathaniel Cotton

  Contentment, Prudent, Kind

  Nathaniel Cotton, “The Fire-Side”

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• Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Air, Sea, Land

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.8

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• There are no accidents, all things have a deep and calculated purpose; sometimes the methods employed by Providence seem strange and incongruous, but we have only to be patient and wait for the result: then we recognize that no others would have answered the purpose, and we are rebuked and humbled.

  Mark Twain

  Waiting, Purpose, Strange

  Mark Twain, John S. Tuckey (1972). “Mark Twain's Fables of Man”, p.189, Univ of California Press

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• The belief in free-will is not in the least incompatible with the belief in Providence, provided you do not restrict the Providence to fulminating nothing but fatal decrees.

  William James

  Belief, Free Will, Decree

  William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.180, Courier Corporation

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• In all God's providences, it is good to compare His word and His works together; for we shall find a beautiful harmony between them, and that they mutually illustrate each other.

  Matthew Henry

  Beautiful, Working Together, Harmony

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 281), 1895.

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• The tidal wave of God's providence is carrying liberty throughout the globe.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Liberty, Wave, Globes

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• For health and the constant enjoyment of life, give me a keen and ever present sense of humor; it is the next best thing to an abiding faith in providence.

  George Barrell Cheever

  Humor, Abiding Faith, Giving

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• Neutrality is no favorite with Providence, for we are so formed that it is scarcely possible for us to stand neuter in our hearts, although we may deem it prudent to appear so in our actions

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Heart, Neutrality, May

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.170

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• Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay Charles Caleb Colton.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Gold, Noble, Affliction

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• God brings you to places, among people, and into certain conditions to accomplish a definite purpose through the intercession of the Spirit in you. Your part in intercessory prayer is not to agonize over how to intercede, but to use the everyday circumstances and people God puts around you by His providence to bring them before His throne, and to allow the Spirit in you the opportunity to intercede for them. In this way God is going to touch the whole world with His saints.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Opportunity, People

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.73, Discovery House

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• READILY and, I trust, feelingly acknowledge the duty incumbent on us all . . . to provide for those who, in the mysterious order of Providence, are subject to want and to disease of body or mind; but I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for making the Federal Government the great almoner of public charity throughout the United States . . . .

  Franklin Pierce

  Government, Order, Mind

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• Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, creator of the Universe. That he governs it by his Providence. That he ought to be worshiped. That the most acceptable service we render him is doing good to his other children. That the soul of Man is immortal, and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Children, Believe, Men

  Benjamin Franklin (1905). “The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Written by Himself. Now First Edited from Original Manuscripts and from His Printed Correspondence and Other Writings”

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• I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps.

  Horatio Nelson

  Sight, Umpires, Done

  Horatio Nelson, Nicholas Harris Nicolas (2011). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.230, Cambridge University Press

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• Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.

  William Cowper

  Judging, Grace, Frowning

  William Cowper (1851). “The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence”, p.671

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• God is the ever active providence, by whose power systems after systems are being evolved out of chaos, made to run for a time and again destroyed.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Running, Chaos, Made

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Chicago Addresses”, p.14, Advaita Ashrama

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• We have many responsibilities, and one cannot expect the full blessings of a kind Providence if he neglects any major duty. A man has duties to his church, his home, his country, and his profession or job.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Country, Jobs, Home

  Ezra Taft Benson (1969). “An enemy hath done this”

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