Providence Quotes - Page 3

God sendeth cold after clothes.

There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way.

The moment we definitely commit ourselves, Providence moves, too.

It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.

Worry is an intrusion into God's providence.

I have always felt that whatever the divine Providence permitted to occur, I was not too proud to report.

Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now.

That which is not allotted the hand cannot reach; what is allotted you will find wherever you may be.

Providence seems to look after the chumps of this world; and, personally, I'm all for it.

The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.

God never sends the mouth but he sendeth meat.

But I'm in favor of every religion with the possible exception of snake-chunking. Anybody that so presumes on how he stands with Providence that he will let a snake bite him, I say he deserves what he's got coming to him.

We must mark God's providence leading us; and if providence tarries, tarry till providence comes

The providence of God does not relieve us of our human responsibility: it doesn't call for inactivity, it calls for activity.

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.

We must follow, not force Providence.

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

It's better to have a malign providence than an indifferent one.

Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding can expect only to improve a single science.

[D]ivine Providence... keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul.

When I took off from Providence, my only professional aspiration was what it had always been: I wanted to be a sportscaster. By the time I landed in the desert, I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to be a writer.

When we reckon without Providence, we must frequently reckon twice.

All that is from the gods is full of Providence.

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

History is the revelation of Providence.