Famous Providence Quotes

'Tis Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours.
-- William Cowper

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

Behind a frowning Providence He hides a smiling face.
-- William Cowper

Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
-- James Russell Lowell

But they that are above Have ends in everything.
-- Francis Beaumont

Chance is a nickname for Providence.
-- William Camden

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

Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion'd strength.
-- John Milton

Fear not, but trust in Providence, Wherever thou may'st be.
-- Thomas Haynes Bayly

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

Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.
-- Abraham Lincoln

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
-- Francis Bacon

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. - transcribed by James Henry Dixon,
-- William Cowper

God sendeth cold after clothes.
-- William Camden

God sends cold according to Cloathes.
-- George Herbert

God tempers the cold to the shorn sheep.
-- Henri Etienne

God's providence is on the side of clear heads.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

If heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.
-- Sir William Browne

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

Lap of providence.
-- Humphrey Prideaux