Quotes: providence
Quotes 1 till 15 of 30.
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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
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Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
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Chance is the providence of adventurers.
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Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.
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God's providence is on the side of clear heads.
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He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.
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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.
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I didn't make these discoveries... God has only worked through me to reveal to His children some of His wonderful providence.
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I do here speak it before the court. I look that the Lord should deliver me by his providence.
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I go the way that Providence dictates with the assurance of a sleepwalker.
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If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, ''God speed her!'' She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of the great purposes of Providence for the advantage of mankind.
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It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.
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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.
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It's better to have a malign providence than an indifferent one.
Source: Birdsong (2010) 290 -
Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.
