Honore de Balzac Quotes

I believe everything happens under God's plan anyway.

Destiny is not designed by mere mortals like us. It is crafted by God.

It's in God's hands when we come on this earth and when we leave.

When heaven breaks, who fixes it?

What happened was no accident. Everything was preordained. True, the will was free, but heaven also made its ordinances.

We don't get to decide who God is.

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.

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

Everything that happens is determined by God.

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

I believe God rules all by his divine providence and that the stars by his permission are instruments.

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.

God is the one who chooses our rulers.

it was God's act and not mine.

I always believe that it is destiny and divine intervention that are with me.

Nothing with God can be accidental.

That which makes man the mere plaything of fate is God.

Only by God?s grace have I made it to see today and only by God?s grace will I ever see tomorrow.

Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.

My health is in the hands of Allah, who has ways of testing us. Whatever happens, happens. I a'int the greatest - it's Allah. I gave myself a job. I work for God.

The Greater Man upstairs know when it's my time. Right now isn't the time.

Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm? But if the great sun move not of himself; but is an errand-boy in heaven; nor one single star can revolve, but by some invisible power; how then can this one small heart beat; this one small brain think thoughts; unless God does that beating, does that thinking, does that living, and not I.

They babble and talk absurdly who, in the place of God's providence, substitute bare permission - as if God sat in a watchtower awaiting chance events , and his judgments thus depended upon human will.

It is for us to make the effort. The result is always in God's hands.