We mustn't be in a hurry to fix and choose our own lot; we must wait to be guided.

The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments.

Let us be convinced that nothing can happen to us apart from the providence of God.

Providence must call us and we must follow it, if we are to go forward confidently.

A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future.

You don’t question Providence. If you can’t have the reality, a dream is just as good.

A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles.

Providence seems to look after the chumps of this world; and, personally, I'm all for it.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.

I do here speak it before the court. I look that the Lord should deliver me by his providence.

Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?

Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now.

We must mark God's providence leading us; and if providence tarries, tarry till providence comes

Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.

Genius has its fatality. Must we not see in its works a manifestation of the will of Providence?

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.

If Providence has created the stars and the planets, man has called the cannonball into existence.

Through the humbling dispensations of Divine Providence, men are sometimes fitted for his service.

Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.

We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence.

That which is not allotted the hand cannot reach; what is allotted you will find wherever you may be.

Providence has at all times been my only dependence, for all other resources seemed to have failed us.

I believe God rules all by his divine providence and that the stars by his permission are instruments.

I have always felt that whatever the divine Providence permitted to occur, I was not too proud to report.

All things are ordered by God, but His providence takes in our free agency, as well as His own sovereignty.

There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.

I must not quarrel with the will Of highest dispensation, which herein, Haply had ends above my reach to know.

Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.

Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England.

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

It's just amazing the providence God had in my life. God was there the whole time, I just didn't bother to look.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

Management [ Providence ], knowledge, and intention are not the same when ascribed to us and when ascribed to God.

No life can surpass that of a man who quietly continues to serve God in the place where providence has placed him.

I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.

Peoples which bastardize themselves, or let themselves be bastardized, sin against the will of eternal Providence.

The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.

The axle of the wheels of the chariot of Providence is Infinite Love, and Gracious Wisdom is the perpetual charioteer.

Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms. [Ger., Die Gaben Kommen von oben herab, in ihren eignen Gestalten.]

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God's providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding can expect only to improve a single science.

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.

The providence of God does not relieve us of our human responsibility: it doesn't call for inactivity, it calls for activity.

Bountiful as is the hand of Providence, its gifts are not so bestowed as to seduce us into indolence, but to rouse us to exertion.

There is a great Field-Marshal, my friend, who arrays our battalions; Let us to Providence trust, and abide and work in our stations.

Fate! There is no fate. Between the thought and the success God is the only agent. Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

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.

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