Theodore White Quotes

Perhaps history is a thing that would stop happening if God held His breath, or could be imagined as turning away to think of something else.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

You give us the pitching some of these clubs have and no one could touch us, but God has a way of not arranging that, because it's not as much fun.

Man plans, but God decides.

I can see ... only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.

It's never guaranteed for somebody to be successful. It just really be God.

I certainly could be wrong, but I don't believe God decides athletic competitions.

Chance is better than choice; it is more lordly. Chance is God, choice is man.

God is the ruler of history. His times are well chosen The Roman Empire was an instrument in his hand. And so are the nations of the modern world.

If grace belongs to God, there are those who say that luck belongs to the Devil and that he looks after his own.

Tis Fate that flings the dice, And as she flings Of kings makes peasants, And of peasants kings.

I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.

There are no inevitabilities in history

The dice of God are always loaded.

In a universe governed by God there are no chance events. Indeed, there is no such thing as chance. Chance does not exist. It is merely a word we use to describe mathematical possibilities. But chance itself has no power because it has no being. Chance is not an entity that can influence reality. Chance is not a thing. It is nothing.

I want to feel it somehow happened like that because things happen for a reason. I want to believe this more than anything because if it were just an accident, then God must have died before he could finish the world.

Here in St. Cloud’s,” Dr. Larch wrote, “ I have been given the choice of playing God or leaving practically everything up to chance. It is my experience that practically everything is left up to chance much of the time; men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should watch for those moments when it is possible to play God – we should seize those moments. There won’t be may

History admits no rules; only outcomes.

Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world?