Providence Quotes

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

I do here speak it before the court. I look that the Lord should deliver me by his providence.

The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.

There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.

Through the humbling dispensations of Divine Providence, men are sometimes fitted for his service.

People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but he was a cunning and calculating politician; from the cultivation of his image as a hayseed from Illinois, to his ability to keep this country together under dire circumstances.

Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts.

I knew I had to get out of Boston and stop making movies there, at least for one movie, otherwise no one would ever consider me for a movie that took place south of Providence.

When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.

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

All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America.

The longer I live, the more faith I have in Providence, and the less faith in my interpretation of Providence.

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

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

Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.

Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.