Quotes about Providence
life isn't always just. But God, who sees everything, is. And He will bring good from it.
— Tamera Alexander
In spiritual things, it is God who performs all things for you. Rest in Him, then.
— Charles Spurgeon
Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.
— Mark Twain
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.
— William Wilberforce
God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
— St. Augustine
No life can surpass that of a man who quietly continues to serve God in the place where providence has placed him.
— Charles Spurgeon
God knows better than we do what we need.
— Victor Hugo
Above all, you can believe in Providence in either of two ways, either as thirst believes in the orange, or as the ass believes in the whip.
— Victor Hugo
Adorable ambuscades of providence!
— Victor Hugo
Oh, you who are! Ecclesiastes calls you the All-powerful; the Maccabees call you the Creator; the Epistle to the Ephesians calls you liberty; Baruch calls you Immensity; the Psalms call you Wisdom and Truth; John calls you Light; the Books of Kings call you Lord; Exodus calls you Providence; Leviticus, Sanctity; Esdras, Justice; the creation calls you God; man calls you Father; but Solomon calls you Compassion, and that is the most beautiful of all your names.
— Victor Hugo
Did not i say that things would come right of themselves? said the Bishop. Then he added, with a smile, To him who contents himself with the surplice of a curate, God sends the cope of an archbishop. Monseigneur, murmured the cure, throwing back his head with a smile. God or the Devil.
— Victor Hugo
God was as visible in this affair as was Jean Valjean. God has his instruments. He makes use of the tool which he wills. He is not responsible to men.
— Victor Hugo