Providence Quotes - Page 25

• I do not know all of the providences of the Lord, but I do know that he permits false doctrine to be taught in and out of the Church and that such teaching is part of the sifting process of mortality

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Teaching, Church, Doctrine

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• On accepting adversity in our lives: Always it is initiated by an act of will on our part; we set ourselves to believe in the overruling goodness, providence, and sovereignty of God and refuse to turn aside no matter what may come, no matter how we may feel. I mistakenly thought I could not trust God unless I felt like trusting Him. Now I am learning that trusting God is first of all a matter of the will. I choose to trust in God, and my feelings eventually follow.

  Margaret Clarkson

  Believe, Adversity, Trusting Him

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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.
  His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.

  William Cowper

  Sweet, Judging, Grace

  'Olney Hymns' (1779) 'Light Shining out of Darkness'

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• Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.

  Epictetus

  Grateful, Humble, Mind

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.49

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• About the twenty-third year of my age, I had many fresh and heavenly openings, in respect to the care and providence of the Almighty over his creatures in general, and over man as the most noble amongst those which are visible.

  John Woolman

  Respect, Men, Years

  John Woolman (2013). “journal”, p.33, Lulu.com

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• Comfort is the god of our generation, so suffering is seen as a problem to be solved, and not a providence from God.

  Matt Chandler

  God, Religious, Our Generation

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• It seemed intended by the blessed providence of God that I should be blind all my life, and I thank him for the dispensation. If perfect earthly sight were offered me tomorrow I would not accept it. I might not have sung hymns to the praise of God if I had been distracted by the beautiful and interesting things about me.

  Fanny Crosby

  Beautiful, Blessed, Hymns

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• How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God's providence and love and express that gratitude to him. Ammon taught, 'Let us give thanks to (God), for he doth work righteousness forever.' Our degree of gratitude is a measure of our love for him.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Gratitude, Giving, Forever

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• Father, help us to rest our heads on the soft pillow of Your providence.

  Alistair Begg

  Father, Helping, Pillow

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• It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.

  John George Nicolay

  Wisdom, Party, Political

  John George Nicolay (2008). “A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln (Volume 1 of 2 ) (EasyRead Comfort Edition)”, p.81, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Religion informs us that misery and sin were produced together. The depravation of human will was followed by a disorder of the harmony of nature; and by that Providence which often places antidotes in the neighborhood of poisons, vice was checked by misery, lest it should swell to universal and unlimited dominion.

  Samuel Johnson

  Together, Vices, Poison

  Samuel Johnson, William Page (1860). “Life and Writings”, p.321

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• Providence The will of God acting together with human will. But he respects our will absolutely. He does not force. Love never forces. It only invites. ... There is a war between good and

  Michael O'Brien

  War, Liberty, Acting

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• Ours is a kind of struggle designed, I dare say, by Providence to try the patience, fortitude, and virtue of men. None, therefore, who is engaged in it, will suffer himself, I trust, to sink under difficulties, or be discouraged by hardships. If he cannot do as he wishes, he must do what he can.

  George Washington

  Struggle, Men, Suffering

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “Writings: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts”, p.91

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• Let us teach our people again to be proud that they are Filipinos. Let us teach them to realize anew that being a Filipino means having as rich and noble a heritage of language, culture, patriotism and heroic deeds as any nation on earth. Let us teach a steadfast faith in Divine Providence, a stable family institution, the unhampered enjoyment of civil liberties, the advantages of constitutional government, the potentials of a rich and spacious land.

  Carlos P. Romulo

  Mean, Heroic Deeds, Government

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• There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.

  R. C. Sproul

  Dust, Pieces, Sovereign

  Twitter post from Aug 17, 2016

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• Most Modern Orthodox are religious Zionists. Despite all differences and nuances among us, we consider the founding of the State a historic change. We accept it as something that came from Providence.

  Norman Lamm

  Religious, Differences, Nuance

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• I believe God rules all by his divine providence and that the stars by his permission are instruments.

  William Lilly

  Stars, Believe, Divine

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• Perhaps out inactivity is not so much waiting on God as it is an expression of the fear of man, the love of the praise of man, and disbelief in God's providence.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Men, Expression, Waiting

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• We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus!

  John Adams

  Bible, God, Religious

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• Providence is a greater mystery than revelation.

  Richard Cecil

  Mystery, Revelations, Greater

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• There is a wheel within a wheel; a secret sacred wheel of Providence (most visible in marriages), guided by His hand that allows not the race to the swift nor bread to the wise, nor good wives to good men: and He that can bring good out of evil (for mortals are blind to this reason) only knows why this blessing was denied to patient Job, to meek Moses, and to our as meek and patient Mr Hooker.

  Izaak Walton

  Wise, Jobs, Men

  Richard Hooker (1830). “The Ecclesiastical polity and other works of Richard Hooker: with his life by I. Walton. To which are added, the 'Christian letter' to mr. Hooker; and dr. Covel's 'Just and temperate defence' in reply to it [&c.] an intr. and notes by B. Hanbury”, p.67

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• All things are ordered by God, but His providence takes in our free agency, as well as His own sovereignty.

  Tryon Edwards

  Agency, Sovereignty, Wells

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.450, Ravenio Books

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• For when a people is not willing or able to fight for its existence- Providence in its eternal justice has decreed that people's end.

  Adolf Hitler

  Fighting, People, Justice

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• More than once I was tormented by the thought that if Providence had put me in the place of the incapable of criminal incompetents or scoundrels in our propaganda service, our battle with Destiny would have taken a different turn.

  Adolf Hitler

  Taken, Destiny, Battle

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Peoples which bastardize themselves, or let themselves be bastardized, sin against the will of eternal Providence.

  Adolf Hitler

  Mein Kampf, Sin, Eternal

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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