Top 44 Providence Quotes

In this post, you will find great Providence Quotes from famous people, such as Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Alexander the Great, John Woolman, Knut Hamsun, William Banting. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Soldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but by the grace and providence of the gods, I am still preserved.

Alexander the Great

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.

John Woolman

When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.

Knut Hamsun

I am most thankful to Almighty Providence for mercies received, and determined still to press the case into public notice as a token of gratitude.

William Banting

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

Victor Hugo

Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will – that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.

Saint Ignatius

Indeed, I should be very stupid or very thankless if I did not congratulate myself every hour of the day on the lot which it has pleased Providence to assign me. My Husband is so kind! So, in all respects, after my own heart!

Jane Welsh Carlyle

Experience join‘d with common sense, To mortals is a providence.

Matthew Green

Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.

Isaac Barrow

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

We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.

Robert E. Lee

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

Mahatma Gandhi

Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.

Imran Khan

I do here speak it before the court. I look that the Lord should deliver me by his providence.

Anne Hutchinson

Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts.

Bernie Worrell

My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.

James Otis

It’s just amazing the providence God had in my life. God was there the whole time, I just didn’t bother to look.

Clayton Kershaw

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.

John Adams

You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of the human race.

J. Reuben Clark

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Most Modern Orthodox are religious Zionists. Despite all differences and nuances among us, we consider the founding of the State a historic change. We accept it as something that came from Providence.

Norman Lamm

When I took off from Providence, my only professional aspiration was what it had always been: I wanted to be a sportscaster. By the time I landed in the desert, I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to be a writer.

Mike Greenberg

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.

Donald Cargill

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.

Thornton Wilder

The eternal link between Lincoln‘s life and Passover – the fact that Lincoln’s death, marked in the Hebrew calendar, coincides with Passover every year – is certainly fitting, and perhaps even part of the providence that Lincoln began to see in his own life and the life of his nation.

Meir Soloveichik

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

Russell M. Nelson

I have been personally victimized by organized disruption of a public lecture on a university campus – at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Michigan State University, and Rhode Island‘s Providence College, to name only a few.

Tom Tancredo

In 1990, I was an assistant coach at Providence College, but I knew I wanted to get married and have children. I did not think I could be a great basketball coach and be a great mom.

Doris Burke

All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America.

Ezra Stiles

There is a special Providence that watches over idiots, drunken men, and boys.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Every time I found an egg to eat, or when I survived a storm in which trees were collapsing all around me, I felt that it was Providence. I don’t need to believe – I know.

Yossi Ghinsberg

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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

Otto von Bismarck

Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.

Peter De Vries

Providence College was the perfect place for me. It changed my life.

Doris Burke

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.

James K. Polk

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

As an overruling providence may succeed our wishes, let us rear an offspring in every respect worthy to fill the most illustrious stations of their predecessors.

Deborah Sampson

As life goes on, we accrue more and more loseable objects. Providence dictates that objects that are too large to lose, such as houses, always come with tiny little keys, specially designed to give you the slip.

Craig Brown

I go the way that Providence dictates with the assurance of a sleepwalker.

Adolf Hitler

I had no background in communications but what I did have was an excellent education from Providence College and a love of basketball. That afforded me the chance to be good on my feet and stay afloat while I learned the media business.

Doris Burke

I started broadcasting in 1992, calling Providence College women‘s basketball on radio. From there to an analyst on the NBA. Think of that journey and every step in between. It’s special.

Doris Burke

Charles Wyly was born Oct 13, 1933, in Lake Providence, La., and for a period lived with his family in a shack without electricity or plumbing.

Charles Duhigg

Top 44 Providence Quotes

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