#providence

Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England. ↗

— Horace Porter

#did #england #ignorance #new #new england

For a thousand years, and then a thousand more…I will love you. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#forever #love #providence #love

Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#providence #trials #trials

It is far. But there is no journey upon this earth that a man may not make if he sets his heart to it. There is nothing, Umbopa, that he cannot do, there are no mountains he may not climb, there are no deserts he cannot cross; save a mountain and a a desert of which you are spared the knowledge, if love leads him and he holds his life in his hand counting it as nothing, ready to keep it or to lose it as Providence may order. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#love #perseverance #providence #quest #life

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#children #dear #gift #him #his

IMPROVIDENCE The other lives I might have led All now might as well be Dead. Survived by no one. Barren, without issue of any sort: This withered bud, failed In art and love. With no time left To change my course. But time enough for infinite remorse. ↗

— John Tottenham

#poetry #change

The longer I live, the more faith I have in Providence, and the less faith in my interpretation of Providence. ↗

— Jeremiah Day

#i #interpretation #less #live #longer

Perceiving the world as well designed and thus the product of a designer, and even seeing divine providence in the daily affairs of life, may be the product of a brain adapted to finding patterns in nature. (38) ↗

— Michael Shermer

#patterns #perception #providence #design

You don’t question Providence. If you can’t have the reality, a dream is just as good. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#providence #reality #dreams

The crisis of physical hunger is essentially a crisis of faith. What or whom will you trust to meet your most basic needs? Will you trust the God who made human bodies, or will you seek your own way? (Deuteronomy 8:1-3) ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#faith #god #jesus-christ #providence #faith