Benjamin Franklin Quotes

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

God is the one who chooses our rulers.

I serve a major God who definitely has the last say on my life.

I have the greater glory of God, the history is His story, that He is in charge and ultimately He knows what He's doing.

We serve a good God who oversees the affairs of mankind.

Beautiful is the moment in which we understand that we are no more than an instrument of God; we live only as long as God wants us to live; we can only do as much as God makes us able to do; we are only as intelligent as God would have us be.

If God wants it, it will happen.

It is only the belief and the confidence we have in a God why man is able to understand his own social institutions, and move and live like a rational human being.

The longer I live the more convinced I become that God governs in the affairs of men. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? Or do we imagine we no longer need His assistance.

We cannot but believe that He who made the world still governs it.

I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings that "except the Lord build they labor in vain that build it." I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the Builders of Babel

There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.

I think God runs the show. Completely. Life proves it every day: He runs the show.

Besides that, I believe one thing: there is a Lord God! And this Lord God creates the peoples.

Acknowledging the Lord's hand in our lives cultivates gratitude. . . .

What discord should we bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered! Then we should govern the world, and not God. And do you think we should govern it better?

One has to trust that God knows how to manage the world.

There's a Grand Designer behind everything. Your life is not a result of random chance, fate, or luck. There is a master plan. History is His story. God is pulling the strings.

God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose.

There is a God in heaven who overrules all things for the best; and this is the comfort of my soul.

I have had so many evidences of [God's] direction, so many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than my own will, that I cannot doubt that this power comes from above.

Necessity is God's veil.

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

It is my unmistakable belief that not a blade of grass moves but by the divine will.

When everything is going good, that's when I know God has rewarded me for my faith.