Providence Quotes
- Page 2I am most thankful to Almighty Providence for mercies received, and determined still to press the case into public notice as a token of gratitude.
William Banting
We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.
Robert E. Lee
I do here speak it before the court. I look that the Lord should deliver me by his providence.
Anne Hutchinson
I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.
Laurence Sterne
Through the humbling dispensations of Divine Providence, men are sometimes fitted for his service.
John Woolman
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
Quintilian
The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.
Marquis de Sade
I believe God rules all by his divine providence and that the stars by his permission are instruments.
William Lilly
It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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.
Ezra Stiles
The longer I live, the more faith I have in Providence, and the less faith in my interpretation of Providence.
Jeremiah Day
Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.
Mahatma Gandhi
Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.
Abbe Pierre