Providence Quotes
Here are some christian Prodivence Quotes and sayings.
“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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
“Chance is a nickname for Providence. [Fr., Le hasard est un sobriquet de la Providence.”
~William Camden
“Divine Providence tempers his blessings to secure their better effect. He keeps our joys and our fears on an even balance, that we may neither presume nor despair. By such compositions God is pleased to make both our crosses more tolerable and our enjoyments more wholesome and safe.”
~ William Wogan
“Neutrality is no favorite with Providence, for we are so formed that it is scarcely possible for us to stand neuter in our hearts, although we may deem it prudent to appear so in our actions.”
~Charles Caleb Colton
“Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion’d strength.”
~John Milton
“The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.”
~ Bible
“The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger.”
~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
“Providence is always on the side of the last reserve”
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
O God, thy arm was here!
And not to use, but to thy arm alone,
Ascribe we all!
~William Shakespeare,
“Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.”
~ Henry Ward Beecher
“My friends, remember this, that there are no weeds, and no worthless men, there are only bad farmers.”
~ Victor Hugo
“There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.”
~ William Shakespeare
“He that doth the ravens feed. Yea, providently caters for the sparrow. Be comfort to my age!”
~ William Shakespeare
“If heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.”
~Sir William Browne
“Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.”
~Alexander Pope
“It is remarkable that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand; but iron, gold, and silver, being both the instruments of blood and slaughter and the price of it, nature has hidden in the bowels of the earth.”
~ Seneca
“All that I know of tomorrow is that Providence will rise before the sun.”
~Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
“He that will watch Providence shall never want a Providence to watch.”
~ Rev. John Flavel
“How just is Providence in all its works, How swift to overtake us in our crimes!”
~ George Lansdowne
“I have dreamt since my youth that divine providence would grant me the privilege of dying in harness”
~Rober Mayer
Temptation Quotes
But for temptation, we would not be here reading about temptation today.
This is my favorite temptation quote from the bible:
“Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.”
“We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.”
~Eduardo Galeano
“I have a simple principle for the conduct of life – never to resist an adequate temptation.”
~ Max Lerner
“By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.”
~ Oscar Wilde Temptation Quotes
“We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.”
~Eduardo Galeano
“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.”
~Oscar Wilde
“The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.”
~T.S. Eliot
“Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it”
~W. Somerset Maugham
“Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.”
~Joey Adams
“I deal with temptation by yielding to it”
~Mark Twain Temptation Quotes
“Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.”
~William Butler Yeats
“Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.”
~Frederick William Faber
“Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.”
~Oscar Wilde
“Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.”
~ W. M. Taylor
“Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.”
~ William Shakespeare Temptation Quotes
“I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it”
~ Mae West Temptation Quotes
Suffering Quotes
Some Christian Suffering Quotes:
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
~ Helen Adams Keller
It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss – a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.
~Arthur Helps
I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.
~Ernest Holmes
Not till I was shut up to prayer and to the study of God’s word by the loss of earthly joys–sickness destroying the flavor of them all–did I begin to penetrate the mystery that is learned under the cross. And wondrous as it is, how simple is that mystery! To love Christ, and to know that I love Him–this is all.
~ Mrs. Elizabeth Payson Prentiss
Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.
~William Shakespeare
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.
~Princess Diana
Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
~Thomas Carlyle
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
~Aeschylus
True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.
~Saint Ignatius
Happiness is not a reward – it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment – it is a result.
~Robert Green Ingersoll
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
~W. Somerset Maugham
For me, an area of moral clarity is: you’re in front of someone who’s suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.
~Paul Farmer
If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
~William Butler Yeats
In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to eternal life in fellowship with God Who so loved the world that He gave Himself in Christ.
~Kenneth Scott Latourette
We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
~Marcel Proust
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
~Michel de Montaigne
Atonement quotes
Atonement quotes and sayings for christians.
“Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.”
~ W. H. Auden
“What atonement is there for blood spilt upon the earth?”
~Aeschylus
“To injure another person through atonement is one of the most subtle devices of the neurotic, as when, for example, he indulges in self-accusations.”
~Alfred Adler
“Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.”
~Otto Weininger
“Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.”
~Bible
“And moreover, I say unto you, that salvation doth not come by the law alone; and were it not for the atonement, which God himself shall make for the sins and iniquities of his people, that they must unavoidably perish, notwithstanding the law of Moses.”
“It is an outstanding merit of the substitutionary view, then, that it does not gloss over the past. It recognizes it for the serious and significant thing that it is. But it affirms that Christ has taken care of our past as He has taken care of every aspect of our need. He has paid the penalty. He has wiped out the sin.”
~Leon Morris
“And if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons; the one for the burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for her, and she shall be clean.”
~From the Bible
“And they brought forth the he goats for the sin offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them: / And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with their blood upon the altar, to make an atonement for all Israel: for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.”
~ From the Bible
