Quotes about Providence
No use denying it. God was up to something.
— Rachel Hauck
But for God...
— Rachel Hauck
America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
On observing 1963 America for the first time, the author says that organization and standardization to a certain degree compete with divine providence.
— Karl Barth
By the divine providence [animals] are intended for man's use... Hence it is not wrong for man to make use of them, either by killing or in any other way whatsoever.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
For man plans, but God arranges.
— Thomas a Kempis
Nothing happens to man without the permission of God.
— Euripides
God's ways are more than Man's arithmetic.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Man proposes, but God blocks the game.
— Mark Twain
What men call accident is God's own part.
— Philip James Bailey
If all the world should in a pet of temp'rance, feed on pulse, drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze, Th' all-giver would be unthank'd, would be unprais'd.
— John Milton
I have had so many evidences of [God's] direction, so many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than my own will, that I cannot doubt that this power comes from above.
— Abraham Lincoln