Words matter. These are the best Providence Quotes from famous people such as Jill Lepore, Samuel Adams, Doris Burke, Deborah Sampson, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Theories of history used to be supernatural: the divine ruled time; the hand of God, a special providence, lay behind the fall of each sparrow. If the present differed from the past, it was usually worse: supernatural theories of history tend to involve decline, a fall from grace, the loss of God’s favor, corruption.
Numerous have been the manifestations of God’s providence in sustaining us. In the gloomy period of adversity, we have had ‘our cloud by day and pillar of fire by night.’ We have been reduced to distress, and the arm of Omnipotence has raised us up.
Providence College was the perfect place for me. It changed my life.
As an overruling providence may succeed our wishes, let us rear an offspring in every respect worthy to fill the most illustrious stations of their predecessors.
There is a special Providence that watches over idiots, drunken men, and boys.
I don’t believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.
Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.
It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.
Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.
What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?
Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.
The year I left coaching to get married, Providence College decided to put its women’s basketball games on radio, and because I had played and coached in the program, the athletic director asked if I’d like to give it a try.
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.
Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.
Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will – that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.
I go the way that Providence dictates with the assurance of a sleepwalker.
When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.
It’s just amazing the providence God had in my life. God was there the whole time, I just didn’t bother to look.
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.
Every time I found an egg to eat, or when I survived a storm in which trees were collapsing all around me, I felt that it was Providence. I don’t need to believe – I know.
How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.
The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.
I started broadcasting in 1992, calling Providence College women’s basketball on radio. From there to an analyst on the NBA. Think of that journey and every step in between. It’s special.
Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
About the twenty-third year of my age, I had many fresh and heavenly openings, in respect to the care and providence of the Almighty over his creatures in general, and over man as the most noble amongst those which are visible.
My walk is a public one. My business is in the world, and I must mix in the assemblies of men or quit the post which Providence seems to have assigned me.
You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of the human race.
Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.
Providence had a graduate assistant job opening. They asked me if I wanted to apply, and I applied. That break right there put me in position to learn from great coaches. It really jump-started every other good break I ever had in coaching.
When I took off from Providence, my only professional aspiration was what it had always been: I wanted to be a sportscaster. By the time I landed in the desert, I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to be a writer.
I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps.
It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.
Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England.
On Earth, God has placed no more than two powers, and as there is in Heaven but one God, so is there here one Pope and one Emperor. Divine providence has specially appointed the Roman Empire to prevent the continuance of schism in the Church.
If Providence has created the stars and the planets, man has called the cannonball into existence.
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.
As life goes on, we accrue more and more loseable objects. Providence dictates that objects that are too large to lose, such as houses, always come with tiny little keys, specially designed to give you the slip.
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.
The work I did with Artists Collective led me to a scholarship at Uconn… It led to me getting a scholarship at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center and a scholarship at Trinity Rep in Providence.
I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country.
Charles Wyly was born Oct 13, 1933, in Lake Providence, La., and for a period lived with his family in a shack without electricity or plumbing.
He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.
When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.
Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.
