Providence

"And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm."

"But they that are above Have ends in everything."

""Let us hope", I prayed, "that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring"."

"We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favours."

"To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by measure."

"God sends cold according to clothes."

"Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion'd strength."

"But my host speaks of the "old fashioned unenlightened times," like a philosopher in the best light of civilization. "I believe in Providence," said he. "Our fathers came into these valleys, got the richest of them, and skimmed off the cream of the soil. The worn-out ground won’t yield no roastin’ ears now. But the Lord foresaw this state of affairs, and prepared something else for us. And what is it? Why, He meant us to bust open these copper mines and gold mines, so that we may have money to buy the corn that we cannot raise." A most profound observation."

"Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world."

"Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust."

"Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies."

"Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees."

"Dieu modère tout à son plaisir."

"He that doth the ravens feed, Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, Be comfort to my age!"

"There is a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will."

"We defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come; the readiness is all."

"O God, thy arm was here; And not to us, but to thy arm alone, Ascribe we all!"

"For nought so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give."

"He maketh kings to sit in soverainty; He maketh subjects to their powre obey; He pulleth downe, he setteth up on hy: He gives to this, from that he takes away; For all we have is his: what he list doe he may."

"God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb."

"The contingency of effects or of causes cannot upset the certainty of divine providence. Three things seem to guarantee the certainty of providence: the infallibility of divine foreknowledge, the efficaciousness of the divine will, and the wisdom. of the divine management, which discovers adequate ways of procuring an effect. None of these factors is opposed to the contingency of things."

"The same process of reasoning enables us to perceive that, without prejudice to divine providence, evil can arise in the world because of defects in secondary causes. Thus in causes that follow one another in order, we see that evil finds its way into an effect owing to some fault in a secondary cause, although this fault is by no means the product of the first cause. For example, the evil of lameness is caused by a curvature in the leg, not by the motive power of the soul. Whatever movement there is in the progress of a lame man, is attributed to the motive power as to its cause; but the unevenness of the progress is caused by the curvature of the leg, not by the motive power. Similarly the evil that arises in things, so far as it has existence or species or a certain nature, is referred to God as to its cause; for there can be no evil unless it resides in something good,. as is clear from what we said above. But with regard to the defect that disfigures it, the evil is referred to a lower, defectible cause. Accordingly’ although God is the universal cause of all things, He is not the cause of evil as evil. But whatever good is bound up with the evil, has God as its cause."

"As for those wicked and ungodly men, whom God as a righteous judge, for former sins doth blind and harden, from them He not only withholdeth His grace, whereby they might have been enlightened in their understandings and wrought upon in their hearts, but sometimes also withdraweth the gifts which they had and exposeth them to such objects as their corruption makes occasion of sin: and withal, gives them over to their own lusts, the temptations of the world, and the power of Satan: whereby it comes to pass that they harden themselves, even under those means, which God useth for the softening of others."

"Fear not, but trust in Providence, Wherever thou may'st be."

"If heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies."

"In some time, his good time, I shall arrive; He guides me and the bird In his good time."

"Le hasard est un sobriquet de la Providence."

"'Tis Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours."

"Behind a frowning Providence He hides a smiling face."

"God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money, Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in."

"Whatever is, is in its causes just."

"Dieu mesure le froid à la brebis tondue."

"Deus haec fortasse benigna Reducet in sedem vice."

"Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own."

"Lap of providence."

"The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night."

"Mutos enim nasci, et egere omni ratione satius fuisset, quam providentiæ munera in mutuam perniciem convertere."

"And I will trust that He who heeds The life that hides, in mead and wold, Who hangs yon alder's crimson beads, And stains these mosses green and gold, Will still, as He hath done, incline His gracious care to me and mine."