Careful Words

Providence (?.)

  • Almighty God
  • Alpha and Omega
  • Atropos
  • Clotho
  • Dame Fortune
  • Decuma
  • Demiourgos
  • Demiurge
  • Fata
  • Fates
  • Fortuna
  • God
  • God Almighty
  • Heaven
  • I Am
  • Jehovah
  • King of Kings
  • Lachesis
  • Lord
  • Lord of Lords
  • Lord of hosts
  • Moirai
  • Morta
  • Nona
  • Norns
  • Omnipotence
  • Omniscience
  • Parcae
  • Skuld
  • Tyche
  • Urdur
  • Verthandi
  • Weird Sisters
  • Weirds
  • the Absolute
  • the Absolute Being
  • the All-holy
  • the All-knowing
  • the All-merciful
  • the All-powerful
  • the All-wise
  • the Almighty
  • the Creator
  • the Deity
  • the Divinity
  • the Eternal
  • the Eternal Being
  • the First Cause
  • the Infinite
  • the Infinite Spirit
  • the Maker
  • the Omnipotent
  • the Omniscient
  • the Preserver
  • the Supreme Being
  • the Supreme Soul

'T is Providence alone secures

In every change both mine and yours.

William Cowper (1731-1800): A Fable. Moral.

Behind a frowning providence

He hides a shining face.

William Cowper (1731-1800): Light shining out of Darkness.

Even God's providence

Seeming estrang'd.

Thomas Hood (1798-1845): The Bridge of Sighs.

In discourse more sweet;

For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense.

Others apart sat on a hill retir'd,

In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high

Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate,

Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute;

And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 555.

What in me is dark

Illumine, what is low raise and support,

That to the height of this great argument

I may assert eternal Providence,

And justify the ways of God to men.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 22.

  There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 't is not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all. Since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is 't to leave betimes?

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 2.

Napoleon said, "Providence is always on the side of the last reserve."

  We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favours.

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774): Vicar of Wakefield. Chap. i.

Some natural tears they dropp'd, but wip'd them soon;

The world was all before them, where to choose

Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.

They hand in hand, with wand'ring steps and slow,

Through Eden took their solitary way.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book xii. Line 645.

  Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind.

Epictetus (Circa 60 a d): Discourses. Chap. xvi.

  The ways of the gods are full of providence.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 a d): Meditations. ii. 3.

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