Definition of Providence

Providence

The act of providing or preparing for future use or application; a making ready; preparation.

Foresight; care; especially, the foresight and care which God manifests for his creatures; hence, God himself, regarded as exercising a constant wise prescience.

A manifestation of the care and superintendence which God exercises over his creatures; an event ordained by divine direction.

Prudence in the management of one's concerns; economy; frugality.

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Providence Quotations

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

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

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
Alexander Pope

We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.
Robert E. Lee

The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.
Marquis de Sade

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.
Blaise Pascal

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

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

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
Jonathan Swift

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.
Robert Green Ingersoll

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

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

I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps.
Horatio Nelson

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

You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.
Maimonides

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

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

Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good.
James K. Polk

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.
William Banting

We just did a show in Providence, Rhode Island, and we got three puppy shots before we even got on the air, which was great. Although sometimes you get flashed by some puppies that you'd rather not see. They're more like mongrels.
Jerry Lawler

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

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
Thornton Wilder

I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.
Laurence Sterne

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

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

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

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

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

My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.
James Otis

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.
Donald Cargill

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Providence Translations

providence in French is providence
providence in German is Vorsehung
providence in Spanish is providencia

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