Providence is not purblind. [ Proverb ]
Providence directs the dice. [ Proverb ]
Behind a frowning providence
God hides a shining face. [ William Cowper ]
Providence is better than rent. [ Proverb ]
No frost can freeze Providence. [ Proverb ]
Experience joined with commonsense.
To mortals is a providence. [ Green ]
Chance is a nickname for Providence. [ Chamfort ]
We must follow, not force Providence. [ William Shakespeare ]
History is the revelation of Providence. [ Kossuth ]
Chance is the providence of adventurers. [ Napoleon ]
Never give up! or the burden may sink you,
Providence wisely has mingled the cup;
And in all trials and troubles bethink you,
The watchword of life should be, Never give up! [ M. F. Tupper ]
Bold Resolution is the favourite of Providence. [ Proverb ]
God's providence is on the side of clear heads. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
Providence is a greater mystery than revelation. [ Richard Cecil ]
Providence protects us in all the details of our lot. [ Mme. de Stael ]
There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. [ William Shakespeare ]
The best remedy of afflictions is submitting to providence. [ Proverb ]
Nature forces on our heart a Creator; history, a Providence. [ Jean Paul ]
Providence is always on the side of the strongest battalions. [ Napoleon I ]
If you leap into a well, providence is not bound to fetch you out. [ Proverb ]
The ways of the heart, like the ways of Providence, are mysterious. [ W. Ware ]
He that despairs measures Providence by his own little contracted model. [ South ]
Providence seems to have forgot the man to whom it sends but few friends. [ Proverb ]
To condemn the poor because of his poverty, is to affront God's providence. [ Proverb ]
The tidal wave of God's providence is carrying liberty throughout the globe. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
If you oblige those that can never pay you, you make providence your debtor. [ Proverb ]
Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence. [ Pope ]
Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life. [ Francois M. A. de Voltaire ]
It has been the providence of nature to give this creature nine lives Instead of one. [ Pilpay ]
There is God's poor, and the devil's poor; the first from providence, the other from vice. [ Proverb ]
Genius has its fatality. Must we not see in its works a manifestation of the will of Providence? [ Arsene Houssaye ]
There is no doubt such a thing as chance, but I see no reason why Providence should not make use of it. [ Simms ]
The dew of heaven is often as beneficial as rain; it is one of those dispensations of a wise and gracious Providence. [ Sturm ]
God sometimes washes the eyes of His children with tears in order that they may read aright His providence and His commandments. [ T. L. Cuyller ]
The casting away things profitable for the maintenance of man's life is an unthankful abuse of the fruits of God's good providence towards mankind. [ Hooker ]
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind. [ Swift ]
That plenty should produce either Covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence; and yet the generality of men are the worse for their riches. [ William Penn ]
I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into this world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden. [ Richard Rumbold ]
Busy not yourself in looking forward to the events of tomorrow; but whatever may be those of the days Providence may yet assign you neglect not to turn them to advantage. [ Horace ]
Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing. [ Barrow ]
There is one preacher who does preach with effect, and gradually persuade all persons; his name is Destiny, Divine Providence, and his sermon the inflexible course of things. [ Carlyle ]
Whatever our place allotted to us by Providence, that, for us, is the post of honor and duty. God estimates us, not by the position we are in, but by the way in which we fill it. [ Thomas Edwards ]
The passage of Providence lies through many crooked ways; a despairing heart is the true prophet of approaching evil; his actions may weave the webs of fortune, but not break them. [ Quarles ]
I have tormented the present with the preoccupations of the future; I have put my judgment in the place of Providence, and the happy child has been transformed into a care-worn man! [ E. Souvestre ]
Neutrality is no favorite with Providence, for we are so formed that it is scarcely possible for us to stand neuter in our hearts, although we may deem it prudent to appear so in our actions. [ Colton ]
Providence has clearly ordained that the only path fit and salutary for man on earth is the path of persevering fortitude - the unremitting struggle of deliberate self-preparation and humble but active reliance on divine aid. [ B. L. Magoon ]
Let every mother consider herself as an instrument in the hands of Providence - let her reflect on the immense importance the proper education of one single family may eventually prove; and that, while the fruit of her labors may descend to generations yet unborn, she will herself reap a glorious reward. [ Miss Hamilton ]
Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nature hath made one world, and art another. In brief, all things are artificial; for nature is the art of God. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]
Wise men, for the most part, are silent at present, and good men powerless; the senseless vociferate, and the heartless govern; while all social law and providence are dissolved by the enraged agitation of a multitude, among whom every villain has a chance of power, every simpleton of praise, and every scoundrel of fortune. [ John Ruskin ]
What if a man save my life with a draught that was prepared to poison me? The providence of the issue does not at all discharge the obliquity of the intent. And the same reason holds good even in religion itself. It is not the incense, or the offering that is acceptable to God, but the purity and devotion of the worshipper. [ Seneca ]
Was man made to disdain the gifts of nature? Was he placed on earth but to gather bitter fruits? For whom are the flowers the gods cause to bloom at the feet of mortals? It pleases Providence when we abandon ourselves to the different inclinations that He has given us: our duties come from His laws, and our desires from His inspirations.
There is scare any lot so low, but there is something in it to satisfy the man whom it has befallen, Providence having so ordered things, that in every man's cup how bitter soever, there are some cordial drops, some good circumstances, which if wisely extracted, are sufficient for the purpose he wants them, that is, to make him contented, and if not happy, at least resigned. [ Sterne ]
If thy desire to raise thy fortunes encourage thy delights to the casts of fortune, be wise betimes, lest thou repent too late; what thou gettest, thou gainest by abused providence; what thou losest, thou losest by abused patience; what thou winnest is prodigally spent; what thou losest is prodigally lost; it is an evil trade that prodigality drives; and a bad voyage where the pilot is blind. [ Quarles ]
I cannot look around me without being struck with the analogy observable in the works of God. I find the Bible written in the style of His other books of Creation and Providence. The pen seems in the same hand. I see it, indeed, write at times my steriously in each of these books: thus I know that mystery in the works of God is only another name for my ignorance. The moment, therefore, that I become humble, all becomes right. [ Richard Cecil ]
Columbus died in utter ignorance of the true nature of his discovery. He supposed he had found India, but never knew how strangely God had used him. So God piloted the fleet. The great discoverer, with all his heroic virtues, did not know whither he went. He sailed for the back door of Asia, and landed at the front door of America, and knew it not.
He never settled the continent. Thus far and no farther, said the Lord. His providence was over all. [ David James Burrell ]