providence

• Finally he is brought to confess that man cannot play providence, and to recall the words “Vengeance is mine!”--Alexander Dumas, Count of Monte Christo Montenay= (_Sir Philip de_), an old English knight.--Sir W. Scott, Castle Dangerous (time, Henry I Montesi´nos=, a legendary hero, who received some affront at the French court, and retired to La Mancha, in Spain. —  Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3
• It would be an interesting study to investigate the efficient or radical causes of these singular phenomena of God's providence--these crises in history, when 'the fountains of the great deep are broken up,' and the experience of centuries is crowded into the limits of a single year, and we see the old landmarks all swept away before the overwhelming tides of a new era. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
• First, if the adherents of this hypothesis considered their deity as a providence which took an active part in the life of this world, then the objections heretofore stated against belief in a personal god are still valid. —  The Necessity of Atheism
• [2:1 By a prodigy of divine providence, the secret of the ages had been kept from premature disclosure during the centuries in which, without knowing it, the Old World was actually in communication with the New. —  A History of American Christianity
• "A sparrow cannot fall to the ground"--a flower of the field cannot wither immediately before his eyes--without awakening in his heart such thoughts as we may believe God intended should be awakened even by such sights as these; for the fall of a sparrow is a Scriptural illustration of His providence, and His hand framed the lily, whose array is more royal than was that of Solomon in all his glory. —  Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2

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