Providence Quotes

Everything that, by the grace of the universe, I was able to become is the direct result of everything I went through.

The Lord is in the details of our lives.

Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.

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

Know that everything will happen at just the right time, at just the right place, with just the right people.

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

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.

The rain ...falls upon the just and the unjust alike; a thing which would not happen if I were superintending the rain's affairs.

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in ones favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.

Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and, as one small candle might light a thousand, so the light here [in Plymouth Colony] kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation.

That million and a half of men, women, and children were carefully, prudently, and peacefully slain by the English Government. They died of hunger in the midst of abundance which their own hands created; and it is quite immaterial to distinguish those who perished in the agonies of famine itself from those who died by typhus fever, which in Ireland is always caused by famine. Further, this was strictly an artificial famine-that is to say, it was a famine which desolated a rich and fertile island that produced every year abundance and superabundance to sustain all her people and many more. The English, indeed, call that famine a dispensation of Providence, and ascribe it entirely to the blight of the potatoes. But potatoes failed in like manner all over Europe, yet there was no famine save in Ireland. The British account of the matter, then, is first a fraud; second, a blasphemy. The Almighty, indeed, sent the potato blight, but the English created the famine.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

God looks after drunks, children and Americans.

Counting one thousand gifts, I discovered I could count on God.

It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion. For while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.

Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.

VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT.

Who was it said that coincidence was just God’s way of remaining anonymous?

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

If God had intended us to fly, he’d never have given us the railways.

Nobody knows the pulse of the audience. By the grace of God, things are working for me.

I believe in fate.

God has been very kind to me.