#providence

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

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#children #dear #gift #him #his

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

— Ray Bradbury

#providence #reality #dreams

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

Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

#because #believe #charity #greedily #hoard

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil! ↗

— Victor Hugo

#blessed be #child #devil #doll #each

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

— Adolf Hitler

#dictates #go #i #providence #way

The banana flavour of his accidental conception, and the banana theme of his accidental death, now all seemed to conspire against him and rather suggest the universe, Mr Fate or whoever did have some sort of master plan after all. Despite all his earlier conjecturing, maybe the universe, Mr Fate or whoever was laughing its fat and meddling head at him. The outlandish evidence did seem to speak for itself, truly suggesting a mocking narrative devised by some mischievous author because quite simply a banana condom had brought Midnight into the world and a banana skin had seen him out. Putting those two seeming truths together, Midnight was once again forced to ask such confused and searching questions like: What is this place, where am I heading? And what’s the deal with all the ruddy bananas? ↗

— Tom Conrad

#chance #conception #fate #ghosts #midnight-merlot

It is not by regretting what is irreparable that true work is to be done, but by making the best of what we are. It is not by complaining that we have not the right tools, but by using well the tools we have. What we are, and where we are is God's providential arrangement - God's doing, though it may be man's misdoing; and the manly and the wise way is to look your disadvantages in the face, and see what can be made our of them. ↗

— Will Schwalbe

#providence #work #life