Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Every time I make a plan, God laughs at me.

I do not think anyone can ever do anything without the help and will of God.

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

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

There is no doubt such a thing as chance, but I see no reason why Providence should not make use of it.

The axle of the wheels of the chariot of Providence is Infinite Love, and Gracious Wisdom is the perpetual charioteer.

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.

All that is from the gods is full of Providence.

God's providence is on the side of clear heads.

Never try to help God fulfill His word.

How strange a checker-work of Providence is the life of man!

I believe that this was God's Will - to send a boy into the Reich, to let him become its Leader, in order to bring his home country into the Reich. Otherwise one must doubt Providence.

Whenever we attempt to mend the scheme of Providence and to interfere in the Government of the world, we had need be very circumspect lest we do more harm than good.

It was clear to me, as I glanced back over my earlier life, that a loving Providence watched over me, that all was directed for me by a higher power.

The way of God is complex, he is hard for us to predict. He moves the pieces and they come somehow into a kind of order.

But between the plan and the operation, there is always an unknown. That unknown spells victory or defeat. ... Some people call it getting the breaks. I call it God. God has His part in everything. That's where prayer comes in.

Providence is wiser than you, and you may be confident it has suited all things better to your eternal good than you could do had you been left to your own option.

The real hope is not in something we think we can do, but in God, who is making something good out of it in some way we cannot see.

Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.

The whole concept of providence is that God knows everything about what we do.

Man plans. God laughs.

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

I do not know why God does some things, but I am convinced that nothing is accidental in his universe.

He is not only a God of perfect time, but of perfect timing.

Someone described Providence as the baptismal name of chance; no doubt some pious person will retort that chance is the nickname of Providence.