Izaak Walton Quotes

What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.

There has been a most Providential Guidance which the want of prudence, vigilance, or judgement has not impeded, and it is here that we can most clearly see the designs of God.

The decision [to go to war] can only come from God, the God of battles, when He shall let fall from his hands the iron dice of destiny.

l know there is a God, and that He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know that His hand is in it. If he has a place and work for me—and I think He has—I believe I am ready.

the deed of a kind and overruling Providence.

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.

All that is from the gods is full of Providence.

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

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

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.

A trouble is a trouble, and the general idea, in the country, is to treat it as such, rather than to snatch the knotted cords from the hand of God and deal out murderous blows.

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.

(God) wants America to succeed. And he wants America to lead.

God will NEVER give YOU something SOMEBODY ELSE is supposed to have

For those who trust in the Divine all things are moving towards an everlasting state of happiness, and no matter what happens at any time to them, it contributes to that state.

Sometimes Allah punishes and sometimes men have to do it, and it is a wise man who knows if it's Allah's turn or his own.

Ask for what you want, but be willing to take what God gives you. It may be better than what you asked for.

If we will but let our God and Father work His will with us, there can be no limit to His enlargement of our existence

Allah created my tongue to speak. I don't have freedom to come , because Allah created my feet to walk. So I walk, and I speak, and I look, and I hear according to what God says.

Nothing can be more consoling to the man of God, than the conviction that the Lord who made the world governs the world; and that every event, great and small, prosperous and adverse, is under the absolute disposal of Him who doth all things well, and who regulates all things for the good of his people.

It is one thing to fall victim to the flood or to fall prey to cancer; it is another thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

The unceasing activity of the Creator whereby, in overflowing bounty and goodwill, He upholds His creatures in ordered existence, guides and governs all events, circumstances, and free acts of angels and men, and directs everything to its appointed goal, for His own glory.

Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking.

Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.

Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven.