Providence quotes

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◆ Life is a winding road with unknown perils and troubles, but we can be certain of God's providence, security, and care.

- Marvin Williams100

◆ Providence is always on the side of the last reserve

- Napoleon Bonaparte99

◆ Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.

- Thomas Sydenham99

◆ My friends, remember this, that there are no weeds, and no worthless men, there are only bad farmers.

- Victor Hugo99

◆ Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay

- Charles Caleb Colton99

◆ 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 Stiles99

◆ Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

- David Viscott99

◆ He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

- Blaise Pascal99

◆ I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps.

- Horatio Nelson99

◆ Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.

- Oliver Cromwell99

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

- Knut Hamsun99

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

- Matthew Green99

◆ The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.

- William Ames99

◆ The world's a stage, where God's omnipotence, His justice, knowledge, love, and providence do act the parts.

- Guillaume De Salluste99

◆ Women are strange and incomprehensible, a device invented by Providence to keep the wit of man well sharpened by constant employment

- Arnold Bennett99