providence

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

I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the…

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

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead…

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

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design…

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by…

Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own…