Definition of Providence

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Providence

The act of providing or preparing for future use or application; a making ready; preparation.

Foresight; care; especially, the foresight and care which God manifests for his creatures; hence, God himself, regarded as exercising a constant wise prescience.

A manifestation of the care and superintendence which God exercises over his creatures; an event ordained by divine direction.

Prudence in the management of one's concerns; economy; frugality.

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Providence Quotations

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.
Mohandas Gandhi

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
John Adams

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
Jonathan Swift

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.
Blaise Pascal

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
Victor Hugo

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?
Marcus Tullius Cicero

We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.
Robert E. Lee

The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.
Marquis de Sade

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

You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.
Maimonides

Providence Translations

providence in French is providence
providence in German is Vorsehung
providence in Spanish is providencia

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