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Quotes about providence
A collection of quotes on the topic of providence, provider, use, people.
Quotes about providence

Die neuesten Arbeiten des Spartacus und Philo in dem Illuminaten-Orden (1794) pp. 9-10.

Source: The State and Revolution (1917), Ch. 5
Context: Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich – that is the democracy of capitalist society. If we look more closely into the machinery of capitalist democracy, we see everywhere, in the "petty" – supposedly petty – details of the suffrage (residential qualifications, exclusion of women, etc.), in the technique of the representative institutions, in the actual obstacles to the right of assembly (public buildings are not for "paupers"!), in the purely capitalist organization of the daily press, etc., etc., – we see restriction after restriction upon democracy. These restrictions, exceptions, exclusions, obstacles for the poor seem slight, especially in the eyes of one who has never known want himself and has never been in close contact with the oppressed classes in their mass life (and nine out of 10, if not 99 out of 100, bourgeois publicists and politicians come under this category); but in their sum total these restrictions exclude and squeeze out the poor from politics, from active participation in democracy.

As quoted in Stories in His Own Hand: The Everyday Wisdom of Ronald Reagan (2001) https://books.google.com/books?id=9ut8fnmwVkwC&pg=PA91 edited by Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Graebner Anderson, and Martin Anderson. p. 91
Post-presidency (1989–2004)

Source: Precepts and Judgments (1919), p. 147

Translation by Lionel Giles
Source: The Art of War, Chapter IV · Disposition of the Army

Source: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

Source: The Annotated Supernatural Horror in Literature: Revised and Enlarged

Sur un nouveau genre de calcul, 1826.

Lecture "Year of Distraction" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChWXYNxUFdc, at 1:07.

As quoted in The Linguist and the Emperor : Napoleon and Champollion's Quest to Decipher the Rosetta Stone (2004) by Daniel Meyerson
Attributed
Nahj al-Balagha

Source: What Life Could Mean to You

“A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”

“My past, O Lord, to Your mercy; my present, to Your love; my future to Your providence.”

“Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly.”
Canto XXII, lines 10–12.
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio

1960s, The American Promise (1965)
Context: This was the first nation in the history of the world to be founded with a purpose. The great phrases of that purpose still sound in every American heart, North and South: "All men are created equal" — "government by consent of the governed" — "give me liberty or give me death." Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories. In their name Americans have fought and died for two centuries, and tonight around the world they stand there as guardians of our liberty, risking their lives. Those words are a promise to every citizen that he shall share in the dignity of man. This dignity cannot be found in a man's possessions; it cannot be found in his power, or in his position. It really rests on his right to be treated as a man equal in opportunity to all others. It says that he shall share in freedom, he shall choose his leaders, educate his children, and provide for his family according to his ability and his merits as a human being.

A private statement made on March 24, 1942.
Disputed, (1941-1944) (published 1953)

“The glory of nature provides evidence that God exists”
as quoted in The Human, the Orchid, and the Octopus: Exploring and Conserving Our Natural World https://books.google.com.mx/books?id=5JAUkrhPJQIC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false (2010), Ch. 5. Bloomsbury Publishing.

Speech to the Royal Society (27 September 1988) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/107346
Third term as Prime Minister
Source: Religion and Empire: People, Power, and the Life of the Spirit (2003), p. 51

Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 173.

From Fukuzawa Yukichi on Japanese Women (1988), trans. Kiyooka Eiichi.

Source: The Australian Architects Offering Pro-Bono Design Services to Bushfire Survivors https://hivelife.com/architects-assist/.

“As for believing things, I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.”
Variant: I can believe anything provided it is incredible.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“She… can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.”

“Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.”

“Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer."
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Healing
One Minute Wisdom (1989)
Source: Awareness: A de Mello Spirituality Conference in His Own Words
“Clarity about what matters provides clarity about what does not.”
Source: Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

i.17-26
Paradise Lost (1667)
Context: And chiefly Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer
Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure,
Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the first
Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread
Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss
And mad'st it pregnant: What in me is dark
Illumine, what is low raise and support;
That to the highth of this great Argument
I may assert th' Eternal Providence,
And justifie the wayes of God to men.

“Nature provides exceptions to every rule.”
Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)
Context: Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But, in fact, they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
History jeers at the attempts of physiologists to bind great original laws by the forms which flow from them. They make a rule; they say from observation what can and cannot be. In vain! Nature provides exceptions to every rule. She sends women to battle, and sets Hercules spinning; she enables women to bear immense burdens, cold, and frost; she enables the man, who feels maternal love, to nourish his infant like a mother.

“If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes.”

http://www.unm.edu/~hdelaney/cosmoquotes.html, Arno Penzias, quoted by Walter Bradley in "The Designed 'Just-so' Universe", 1999.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), I Prolegomena and General Introduction to the Book on Painting

As quoted in The Third Reich: A New History by Michael Burleigh, p.1884
1930s

1770s, African Slavery in America (March 1775)

[Federico Biancuzzi, Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages, https://books.google.com/books?id=yB1WwURwBUQC&pg=PA14, 21 March 2009, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", 978-0-596-55550-4, 14]

Søren Kierkegaard The Concept of Anxiety, Nichol p. 98-100 (1844)
About

The Beginning of Time (1996)

Source: Capitalism and Modern Social Theory (1971), pp. 12-13.

Source: Wozu noch Philosophie? [Why still philosophy?] (1963), p. 10

November 22, 1981 at the Shrine of Merciful Love in Todi-Collevalenza, Italy
Source: The Divine Mercy http://thedivinemercy.org/message/johnpaul/quotes.php

2012, Sandy Hook Prayer Vigil (December 2012)

Sahih Al-Bukhari Volume 8 Book 73 Number 34
Sunni Hadith

Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Evolution from Our Microbial Ancestors (1986)

James Tobin, "Keynes' Policies in Theory and Practice", Challenge (1983).
1970s and later

Notes on general orders to the troops, (20 October 1781), as quoted in The Writings of George Washington (1835) edited by Jared Sparks, Vol. 8, p. 189
1780s

The Mission of the Clan Messiah in the Revolutionary Era after the Coming of Heaven http://www.unification.net/2006/20060601_1.html (2006-06-01)

Rosa Park speech to social activists assembled in Washington, D.C. ( 1995) http://www.sweetspeeches.com/s/2316-rosa-parks-speech-at-the-million-man-march)

2015, Town Hall meeting with Young Leaders of the Americas (April 2015)

Letter to Clark Ashton Smith (7 November 1930), in Selected Letters III, 1929-1931 edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, p. 214
Non-Fiction, Letters

The Ballot or the Bullet (1964), Speech in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964)
In reply to her daughter when she had streaked and her daughter who was five years old was upset knowing about to in the school when she was told that her mother :’All the children in my school say that their mummies said that you ran nanga’ (‘nanga’ in Hindi means “naked”) in "Timepass" pp. viii-ix
Leda Cosmides and John Tooby, " Evolutionary Psychology: A Primer http://www.cep.ucsb.edu/primer.html" (1997)

"The Private Production of Defense" http://www.mises.org/journals/scholar/Hoppe.pdf (15 June 1999)
The Calcutta Quran Petition (1986)

Source: undated quotes, Renoir – his life and work, 1975, p. 150 : a quote from Vollard's book

As quoted in Logical Dilemmas : The Life and Work of Kurt Gödel (1997) by John W. Dawson Jr.

“Yes; the stain rests upon the flesh-eaters, not upon the flesh providers!”
Source: The Natural Food for Man, p. 162

Confessions of a Twentieth-Century Pilgrim (1988)

The Book of My Life (1930)

“You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life.”
229H:3:2
Sermons

Ruminator Magazine interview with Susannah McNeely (August/September 2005).

Source: The Lonely Dead (2004), Ch. 1