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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America. -- Otto von Bismarck
Providence protects us in all the details of our lot. -- Madame de Stael
Fear not, but trust in Providence, Wherever thou may'st be. -- Thomas Haynes Bayly
Tis Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours. -- William Cowper
The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments. -- Samuel Johnson
There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular one is Providence. -- Mark Twain
Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies. -- Alexander Pope
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
I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden. -- Richard Rumbold
Chance is a nickname for Providence. -- Nicolas Chamfort
History is the revelation of Providence. -- Lajos Kossuth
Providence is a greater mystery than revelation. -- Richard Cecil
Providence is the perpetuity and continuance of creation. -- Richard Sibbes
The moment we definitely commit ourselves, Providence moves, too. -- W. H. Murray
Providence seems to call me to the regions beyond -- David Livingstone
Do your duty and leave the rest to Providence. -- Stonewall Jackson
What is Providence for you may be Nemesis for me. -- Mason Cooley
Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Providence is always on the side of the last reserve. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
All that is from the gods is full of Providence. -- Marcus Aurelius
In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences. -- Pope John Paul II
Without any cant, does not Providence provide wonderfully for us? -- Isabel Burton
When we reckon without Providence, we must frequently reckon twice. -- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
I have only been an instrument in the hands of Providence. -- George Washington
How strange a checker-work of Providence is the life of man! -- Daniel Defoe
Seek virtue and of that posest, to Providence resign the rest. -- Benjamin Franklin
We cannot measure Divine Providence by the yardstick of human mentality. -- A.J. Cronin
The hand of Providence creeps among the stars, giving Slothrop the finger. -- Thomas Pynchon
Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion'd strength. -- John Milton
When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate. -- Knut Hamsun
Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts. -- Bernie Worrell
When Providence favors, you can make a safe voyage on a twig. -- Publilius Syrus
The boundless stores of Providence are engaged for the support of the believer. -- Charles Spurgeon
A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future. -- Hosea Ballou
Woman! thou loveliest gift that here below Man can receive, or Providence bestow. -- Winthrop Mackworth Praed
[D]ivine Providence... keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul... -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People are responsible for their opinions, but Providence is responsible for their morals. -- William Butler Yeats
I go the way that Providence dictates with the assurance of a sleepwalker. -- Adolf Hitler
I go the way that Providence dictates with the assurance of a sleepwalker." -- Adolf Hitler
The Providence of God is like Hebrew words-it can be read only backwards. -- John Flavel
Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence. -- Alexander Pope
Tie your camel up as best you can, and then trust it to Providence. -- Nazr Mohammed
A nutritious substance supplied by a bountiful Providence for the fattening of the poor. -- Ambrose Bierce
Through the humbling dispensations of Divine Providence, men are sometimes fitted for his service. -- John Woolman
When a king creates an office, Providence creates immediately a fool to buy it. -- Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking. -- Frank Herbert
Appetite, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question. -- Ambrose Bierce
Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence. -- Honore de Balzac
When I have no idea, I gnaw my nails and invoke the aid of Providence. -- Brander Matthews
Providence looks after all the chumps of this world, and personally, I'm all for it. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Illness is merely the bitter, which a wise Providence mingles in the cup of life. -- James Holman
You don't question Providence. If you can't have the reality, a dream is just as good. -- Ray Bradbury
The political horizon looks dark and lowering; but the people, under Providence, will set all right. -- Abraham Lincoln
Peoples which bastardize themselves, or let themselves be bastardized, sin against the will of eternal Providence... -- Adolf Hitler
We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favors. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life. -- Voltaire
The well of Providence is deep. It's the buckets we bring to it that are small. -- Mary Webb
If Providence has created the stars and the planets, man has called the cannonball into existence. -- Jules Verne
Providence must call us and we must follow it, if we are to go forward confidently. -- Vincent de Paul
The damnest scoundrel that ever lived, but in the infinite mercy of Providence... also the damnest fool. -- Abraham Lincoln
LAST, n. A shoemaker's implement, named by a frowning Providence as opportunity to the maker of puns. -- Ambrose Bierce
Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue? -- George Washington
It is as though we have grown wings, which thanks to Providence, we have learnt to control. -- Louis Bleriot
He that despairs measures Providence by his own little contracted model and limits infinite power to finite apprehensions. -- Robert South
We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence. -- Vera Brittain
Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind. -- Epictetus
Providence has at all times been my only dependence, for all other resources seemed to have failed us. -- George Washington
Do not fight against Providence; nor bring more heavy weather to the storm. Face what is already there. -- Menander
Genius has its fatality. Must we not see in its works a manifestation of the will of Providence? -- Arsene Houssaye
Management [ Providence ], knowledge, and intention are not the same when ascribed to us and when ascribed to God. -- Maimonides
Providence has given human wisdom the choice between two fates: either hope and agitation, or hopelessness and calm. -- Yevgeny Baratynsky
Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding can expect only to improve a single science. -- Samuel Johnson
Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence. -- Saint Augustine
Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it. -- Abbe Pierre
I have always felt that whatever the divine Providence permitted to occur, I was not too proud to report. -- Charles A. Dana
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty -- Simon Bolivar
Providence has given the United States the duty of extending Christian civilization. We come as ministering angels, not despots. -- Knute Nelson
My trust is in the mercy and wisdom of a kind Providence, who ordereth all things for our good. -- Robert E. Lee
Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them. -- Sophie Swetchine
The axle of the wheels of the chariot of Providence is Infinite Love, and Gracious Wisdom is the perpetual charioteer. -- Charles Spurgeon
Highest Providence often works a wonderful miracle: that of having evil men make others who are evil to become good. -- Severinus of Noricum
The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it. -- Mark Twain
Of all the gifts that wise Providence grants us to make life full and happy, friendship is the most beautiful. -- Epicurus
Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations." -- John Quincy Adams
Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all. -- Wilhelm von Humboldt
Let us be submissive to Providence, He will see to our affairs in His own time and in His own way -- Vincent de Paul
Without doubt cats are intellectuals who have been, by some mysterious decree of Providence, deprived of the comfort of the word. -- Rebecca West
Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England. -- Horace Porter
Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations. -- John Quincy Adams
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
There is no doubt such a thing as chance, but I see no reason why Providence should not make use of it. -- William Gilmore Simms
the night of trouble is at times so dark that the interwoven gold with which Providence relieves the woof of calamity remains undiscovered. -- Anna Leonowens
Someone described Providence as the baptismal name of chance; no doubt some pious person will retort that chance is the nickname of Providence. -- Nicolas Chamfort
Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct the eternal will? Seek virtue, and of that possest, To Providence resign the rest. -- John Gay
Our lives are of great worth if we accept with good grace the situation Providence places us in, and go on living lovingly. -- Takashi Nagai
Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks. -- George Bernard Shaw
I am convinced that nothing will happen to me, for I know the greatness of the task for which Providence has chosen me. -- Adolf Hitler
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
Concerning all acts of iniative and creation, there is one elementary truth- that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. -- W. H. Murray
Today I think that if for no other reason than that an Auschwitz existed, no one in our age should speak of Providence. -- Primo Levi
There is a great Field-Marshal, my friend, who arrays our battalions; Let us to Providence trust, and abide and work in our stations. -- Arthur Hugh Clough
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
But I must submit all my Hopes and Fears, to an overruling Providence, in which, unfashionable as the Faith may be, I firmly believe. -- John Adams
Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air! -- Thomas Carlyle
[T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect. -- George Washington
The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger. -- Charles Spurgeon
For when a people is not willing or able to fight for its existence- Providence in its eternal justice has decreed that people's end. -- Adolf Hitler
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
I believe in Providence and I believe Providence to be just. Therefore I believe that Providence always rewards the strong, the industrious, and the upright. -- Adolf Hitler
Bountiful as is the hand of Providence, its gifts are not so bestowed as to seduce us into indolence, but to rouse us to exertion. -- William Wilberforce
Let us hope, I prayed, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring. -- Peter De Vries
We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence. -- Samuel Richardson
If, unable to solve the mysteries of Providence, we plunge into Atheism, we only increase a thousand fold the darkness by which we are surrounded -- Charles Hodge
But, all this while, I was giving myself very unnecessary alarm. Providence had mediated better things for me than I could possibly imagine for myself. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
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
It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also. -- Victor Hugo
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. -- Tryon Edwards
And Burke, could he see our century, never would concede that a consumption-society, so near to suicide, is the end for which Providence has prepared man. -- Russell Kirk

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