#providence

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

— David Viscott

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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

#been #end #god #hope #kind

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

— Matthew Green

#common sense #experience #join #mortals #providence

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

— Knut Hamsun

#calls #evil #fate #good #man

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

— Adolf Hitler

#dictates #go #i #providence #way

What a lovely thing a rose is!" He walked past the couch to the open window and held up the drooping stalk of a moss-rose, looking down at the dainty blend of crimson and green. It was a new phase of his character to me, for I had never before seen him show any keen interest in natural objects. "There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#flowers #goodness #hope #nature #providence

Each meeting occurs at the precise moment for which it was meant. Usually, when it will have the greatest impact on our lives. ↗

— Nadia Scrieva

#fortune #friendship #impact #love #meeting

Human beings owe a debt of love to one another because there is no other method of paying the debt of love and care which all of us owe to providence. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#love

If you have money, power, and status today, it is due to the century and place in which you were born, to your talents and capacities and health, none of which you earned. In short, all your resources are in the end the gift of God. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#success #talent #money

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

#america #consider #design #earth #emancipation