Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Somewhere in the infinite that He occupies, God advances and withdraws the pawns of the other games He plays, but it is too soon to worry about this one, all He need do for the present is allow things to take their natural course, apart from the occasional adjustment with the tip of His little finger to make sure some stray thought or action does not interfere with the harmony of destinies.

All that is from the gods is full of Providence.

It's God's job to run the world. Sometimes we accomplish more by doing less.

Coincidences are glimpses in to the creative mind of the universe.

I believe everything happens under God's plan anyway.

Man didn't put me in this place [in entertaining industry]. I'm in this position because of God. And so, if man didn't put me in this place, I really don't see no man that can take me out of here.

Nothing with God can be accidental.

That which makes man the mere plaything of fate is God.

There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.

Only by God?s grace have I made it to see today and only by God?s grace will I ever see tomorrow.

How often has providence convinced its observers, upon a sober recollection of the events of their lives, that if the Lord had left them to their own counsels they had as often been their own tormentors, if not executioners!

Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything.

Sir, what can be said of these things? Is it the arm of the flesh that hath done these things? Is it the wisdom and counsel, or strength of man? It is the Lord only. God will curse that man and his house that dares to think otherwise. Sir, you see the work is done by a Divine leading. God gets into the hearts of men, and persuades them to come under you.

At any given time the universe is giving you the best result possible.

God will either give us what we ask, or what He knows to be better for us.

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.

No man's plenum, Mr. Quistgaard, is impervious to the awl of God's will.

What God originates, God orchestrates.

Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.

To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is the height of arrogance.

Okay, maybe this was the meant to be: the universe I knew, loved nothing more than balance.

When heaven breaks, who fixes it?

When God will, no winde but brings raine.

There but for the grace of God, goes God.