Providence

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

— Providence

But they that are aboveHave ends in everything.

— Providence

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

— Providence

We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favours.

— Providence

To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by measure.

— Providence

God sends cold according to clothes.

— Providence

Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trialTo my proportion'd strength.

— Providence

Who sees with equal eye, as God of all,And now a bubble burst, and now a world.

— Providence

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

— Providence

Who finds not Providence all good and wise,Alike in what it gives, and what denies.

— Providence

Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze,Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees.

— Providence

He that doth the ravens feed,Be comfort to my age!

— Providence

There is a divinity that shapes our ends,Rough-hew them how we will.

— Providence

We defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come; the readiness is all.

— Providence

O God, thy arm was here;Ascribe we all!

— Providence

For nought so vile that on the earth doth liveBut to the earth some special good doth give.

— Providence

He maketh kings to sit in soverainty;For all we have is his: what he list doe he may.

— Providence

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

— Providence

Fear not, but trust in Providence,Wherever thou may'st be.

— Providence

If heaven send no supplies,The fairest blossom of the garden dies.

— Providence

In some time, his good time, I shall arrive; In his good time.

— Providence

'Tis Providence alone securesIn every change both mine and yours.

— Providence

Behind a frowning ProvidenceHe hides a smiling face.

— Providence

God made bees, and bees made honey,So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.

— Providence

Whatever is, is in its causes just.

— Providence

Deus haec fortasse benignaReducet in sedem vice.

— Providence

Behind the dim unknown,Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.

— Providence

Lap of providence.

— Providence

The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.

— Providence

And I will trust that He who heedsHis gracious care to me and mine.

— Providence