Pastoral Resources

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.

The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.

I am most thankful to Almighty Providence for mercies received, and determined still to press the case into public notice as a token of gratitude.

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.

There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.

I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with whom I desired only to live; yet the dreadful apprehensions I have of what is coming upon this land may help to make me submissive to this providence, though more bitter.

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

You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of the human race.

Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.

The longer I live, the more faith I have in Providence, and the less faith in my interpretation of Providence.

I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence.

When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.

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

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!

I do here speak it before the court. I look that the Lord should deliver me by his providence.

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.