Providence Quotes
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To the dim and bewildered vision of humanity, God's care is more evident in some instances than in others; and upon such instances men seize, and call them providences. It is well that they can; but it would be gloriously better if they could believe that the whole matter is one grand providence.
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We are not to lead events, but follow them.
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We must follow, not force providence.
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What mockeries are our most firm resolves. - To will is ours, but not to execute. We map our future like some unknown coast, and say here is a harbor, there a rock; the one we will attain, the other shun, and we do neither; some chance gale springs up, and bears us far o'er some unfathomed sea.
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Who finds not Providence all good and wise, alike in what it gives and what denies?
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