Benjamin Franklin Quotes

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.

Pray that God will open the doors you can't open and close the doors that need to be closed.

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

Man proposes, but God disposes.

To modify the conditions of the Earth's movement is beyond the powers of man. It is not given to mankind to change the order established by the Creator in the system of the Universe.

What men call accident is God's own part.

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.

I believe God will make a way.

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

I know for certain that God does not make mistakes, but he does make miracles. I am one. You are, too.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

God never made His work for man to mend.

I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.

… every State in the Universe is equally a Theocracy. Whoever believes in a particular Providence must acknowledge that the Events of States are governed by the Almighty

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.

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

I believe in one principle: Do your work and leave the rest to God.

Be sure they sleep not whom God needs.

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

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

Have you felt, as I have, the impression to help someone only to find that what you were inspired to give was exactly what someone needed at that very moment? That is a wonderful assurance that God knows all of our needs and counts on us to fill the needs of others around us.

Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end, and it is of no use to try to whitewash its huge, mixed instrumentalities, or to dress up that terrific benefactor in a clean shirt and white neckcloth of a student in divinity.

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.

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