Quotes of Providence - somelinesforyou

“ There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Behind a frowning Providence He hides a smiling face. ”

- William Cowper

“ Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them. ”

- Anne Sophie Swethchine

“ God's providence is on the side of clear heads. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

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

- Otto Von Bismarck

“ Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform. Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm. ”

- Joseph Addison

“ Fear not, but trust in Providence, Wherever thou may'st be. ”

- Thomas Haynes Bayly

“ Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do. ”

- Clara Barton

“ Worry is forethought gone to seed. ”

- William George Jordan

“ Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence. ”

- Edward Bulwer Lytton

“ We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favours. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ God sends cold according to Cloathes. ”

- George Herbert

“ Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion'd strength. ”

- John Milton

“ Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ Providence is always on the side of the last reserve. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“ 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. ”

- Robert Green Ingersoll

“ The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do… ”

- Chuck Swindoll

“ The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of man; and if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy. ”

- Tyron Edwards

“ Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they? ”

- Unknown

“ Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it. ”

- Mark Twain

“ 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

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

- Mark Twain
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