#providence

My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning. ↗

— James Otis

#dear #eternity #flash #god #god almighty

For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor. ↗

— Quintilian

#better #born #destruction #dumb #employ

All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#been #civil #except #forms #mankind

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

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

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

God schedules a birthday, not man. ↗

— Robert A. Bradley

#calendar #children #hurry #life #patience

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

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

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

— David Viscott

#believe #fatalism #inclined #most #people