Providence Quotes
These are some of the best 'Providence' quotations and sayings.
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All nature is but art, unknown to thee; all chance, direction which thou canst net see; all discord, harmony not understood; all partial evil, universal good.
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And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform. Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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By going a few minutes sooner or later, by stopping to speak with a friend on the corner, by meeting this man or that, or by turning down this street instead of the other, we may let slip some impending evil, by which the whole current of our lives would have been changed. There is no possible solution in the dark enigma but the one word, "Providence."
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Duties are ours, events are God's. This removes an infinite burden from the shoulders of a miserable, tempted, dying creature. On this consideration only can he securely lay down his head and close his eyes.
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Either all is chance, and being but chance is of no consequence, or God rules the world, and all is well. - Whatever befalls is just and right, and therefore not unendurable.
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Everything that happens in the world is part of a great plan of God running through all time.
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God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
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God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ill that checker life.
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He that doth the ravens feed. Yea, providently caters for the sparrow. Be comfort to my age!
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He who is truly religious finds a providence not more truly in the history of the world, than in his own personal and family history. - The rainbow which hangs a splendid circle in the heights of heaven, is also formed by the same sun in the dew-drop of the lowly flower.
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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.
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In the huge mass of evil as it rolls and swells, there is ever some good working toward deliverance and triumph.
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Our Lord God doeth work like a printer, who setteth the letters backward; we see and feel well His setting, but we shall see the print yonder - in the life to come.
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Providence is a greater mystery than revelation. The state of the world is more humiliating to our reason than the doctrines of the Gospel. A reflecting Christian sees more to excite his astonishment, and to exercise his faith, in the state of things between Temple Bar and St. Paul's, than in what he reads from Genesis to Revelations.
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Some one has said that in war providence is on the side of the strongest regiments. And I have noticed that providence is on the side of clear heads and honest hearts; - and wherever a man walks faithfully in the ways that God has marked out for him, providence, as the Christian says, - luck, as the heathen says, - will be on that man's side. - In the long run you will find that God's providence is in favor of those that keep his laws, and against those that break them.
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The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of man; and if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?
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There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.
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To make our reliance upon providence both pious and rational, we should prepare all things with the same care, diligence, and activity, as if there were no such thing as providence for us to depend upon; and then, when we have done all this, we should as wholly and humbly rely upon it, as if we had made no preparation at all.
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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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