#providence

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth that ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now. ↗

— William Hutchison Murray

#committed #creatiion #initiative #magic #power

When God issues a call to us, it is always a holy call. The vocation of dying is a sacred vocation. To understand that is one of the most important lessons a Christian can ever learn. When the summons comes, we can respond in many ways. We can become angry, bitter or terrified. But if we see it as a call from God and not a threat from Satan, we are far more prepared to cope with its difficulties. ↗

— R.C. Sproul

#fear #gospel #providence #tragedy #death

People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but he was a cunning and calculating politician; from the cultivation of his image as a hayseed from Illinois, to his ability to keep this country together under dire circumstances. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#ascribe #back #brilliant #calculating #circumstances

We just did a show in Providence, Rhode Island, and we got three puppy shots before we even got on the air, which was great. Although sometimes you get flashed by some puppies that you'd rather not see. They're more like mongrels. ↗

— Jerry Lawler

#although #before #did #even #flashed

You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination. ↗

— Maimonides

#astronomy #between #certainly #comprehending #desirous

I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability. ↗

— Max Frisch

#believe #fate #formulae #i #i am

The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#cast #designs #light #man #moves

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. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#been #death #designed #ever #evil

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

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