Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty.

Next to the acknowledgement of the existence of a Deity, there is no one principle of greater importance in religion, than a realizing belief of the divine government and superintending the affairs of the universe, providence, and intimately concerned in whatever happens to mankind, both as nations and kingdoms, and as individuals.

Allah guards the justice loving government, even if it is the government of non-Muslims, and destroys the tyrant government, even if it is the government of Muslims.

I believe that Providence would never have allowed us to see the victory of the Movement if it had the intention after all to destroy us at the end.

I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our forefathers, as Israel of old.

Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.

The ways of Providence being inscrutable, and the justice of it not to be scanned by the shallow eye of humanity, nor to be counteracted by the utmost efforts of human power or wisdom, resignation, and as far as the strength of our reason and religion can carry us, a cheerful acquiescence to the Divine Will, is what we are to aim.

Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss And mad'st it pregnant: What is in me dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the heighth of this great Argument I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.

I'm an atheist how unfortunate it is to assign responsibility to the higher up for justice amongst people.

Grace makes the promise and providence the payment.

I am very glad indeed to see you to-night, and yet I will not say I thank you for this call, but I do most sincerely thank Almighty God for the occasion on which you have called.

God's providence is not blind, but full of eyes.

For atheism and polytheism there is no special problem of suffering, nor need there be for every kind of monotheism.

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

God who gives the wound gives the salve.

God owes me nothing. He doesn't have to work for anything good in my life. That is only for those who are called according to His purpose.

We must believe in the gods no longer if injustice is to prevail over justice.

God often proves Himself when we feel we have the least to offer.

God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it.

I do not believe that the Constitution was the offspring of inspiration, but I am as satisfied that it is as much the work of a Divine Providence as any of the miracles recorded in the Old and New Testament.

God who sends the wound sends the medicine.

Ah, did we but rightly understand what the demerit of sin is, we would rather admire the bounty of God than complain of the straithandedness of Providence. And if we did but consider that there lies upon God no obligation of justice or gratitud to reward any of our duties, it would cure our murmurs (Gen. 32:10).

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

In EVERY situation and EVERY circumstance of your life, God is always doing a thousand different things that you cannot see and you do not know.

How could a just God permit great misery? The Haitian peasants answered with a proverb: "Bondye konn bay, men li pa konn separe," in literal translation, "God gives but doesn't share." This meant... God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he's not the one who's supposed to divvy up the loot. That charge was laid upon us.