Vincent de Paul
Saint, Priest
"Providence must call us and we must follow it, if we are to go forward confidently."
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Providence
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Ray Bradbury
Author
"You don’t question Providence. If you can’t have the reality, a dream is just as good."
George Washington
Military Leader, Politician
"Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?"
Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"I know nothing of the science of astrology and I consider it to be a science, if it is a science, of doubtful value, to be severely left alone by those who have any faith in Providence."
George Washington
Military Leader, Politician
"Providence has at all times been my only dependence, for all other resources seemed to have failed us."
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"Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence."
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"We are not to lead events, but to follow them."
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"The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments."
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"A purpose is the eternal condition of success."
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"Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now."
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"There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way."
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"It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also."
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"The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it."
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"Seek virtue and of that posest, to Providence resign the rest."
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"We must follow, not force Providence."
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"[D]ivine Providence... keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul."
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"Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding can expect only to improve a single science."
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"All that is from the gods is full of Providence."
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"We mustn't be in a hurry to fix and choose our own lot; we must wait to be guided."
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"By an ambitious chieftain, aiming only to aggrandize himself and establish his power, the subject might have been regarded in a different light; but the designs and actions of Washington centred in nobler objects, the freedom, tranquillity, and happiness of his country, in which he was to participate equally with every other citizen, neither seeking nor expecting any other preeminence than that of having been an instrument in the hand of Providence."
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"Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms. [Ger., Die Gaben Kommen von oben herab, in ihren eignen Gestalten.]"
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"The gods give to mortals not everything at the same time."
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