Providence Quotes

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. (Jonathan Swift)
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. View quote
John Adams
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. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America. View quote
Otto von Bismarck
It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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. View quote
John Woolman
Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him, we think, that has reached this country is his saying,imported by Madame de Stal, and thankfully pocketed by most newspaper critics,'Providence has given to the French the empire of the land to the English that of the sea to the Germans that ofthe air' Richter German humorist prose writer. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature. View quote
Alexander Pope
Any one thing in the creation is suffiocient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind. View quote
Epictetus
We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favours. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities . . . are the greatest cozenage that men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by. (Oliver Cromwell)
I believe God rules all by his divine providence and that the stars by his permission are instruments. View quote
William Lilly
I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with whom I desired only to live; yet the dreadful apprehensions I have of what is coming upon this land may help to make me submissive to this providence, though more bitter. View quote
Donald Cargill
The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence. View quote
William Ames
And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good. The gratitude of the nation to the sovereign arbiter of all human events should be commensurate with the boundless blessings which we enjoy. Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world. View quote
James K. Polk
Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good. View quote
James K. Polk
In conclusion I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country. Let us invoke a continuance of the same protecting care which has led us from small beginnings to the eminence we this day occupy. View quote
Zachary Taylor
First Theory . There is no Providence at all for anything in the Universe; all parts of the Universe, the heavens and what they contain, owe their origin to accident and chance; there exists no being that rules and governs them or provides for them. This is the theory of Epicurus. View quote
Maimonides
There are four different theories concerning Divine Providence; they are all ancient, known from the time of the Prophets, when the true law was revealed to enlighten these dark regions. View quote
Maimonides
Management [ Providence ], knowledge, and intention are not the same when ascribed to us and when ascribed to God. (Maimonides)
The Prophets even express their surprise that God should take notice of man, who is too little and too unimportant to be worthy of the attention of the Creator; how, then, should other living creatures be considered as proper objects for Divine Providence! View quote
Maimonides
While the saving message spread day by day, some providence brought from Ethiopia an officer of the queen, for that nation is still traditionally ruled by a woman. View quote
Eusebius of Caesarea
I have the grace of providence to be poor. View quote
António de Oliveira Salazar
They have their belief, these poor Thibet people, that Providence sends down always an Incarnation of Himself into every generation. At bottom some belief in a kind of Pope! At bottom still better, belief that there is a Greatest Man; that he is discoverable; that, once discovered, we ought to treat him with an obedience which knows no bounds! This is the truth of Grand Lamaism; the "discoverability" is the only error here. View quote
Thomas Carlyle