Providence (n.) may effect a highly economic conversion of funds: let scientists teach that existence is waste on an enormous scale — if she wakes to a new love, no human life has been wasted upon me.
Providence (n.) is more than the sum of what individuals do; what a person accomplishes is accidental, visible for what it is only in eternity's hindsight, as God's bounty.
Providence (n.) may lock great powers inside melancholy to hide them from their owner: he will never learn what he could do, will be humbled by no reality, yet will feel annihilation within himself as others never do.
Providence (n.) promised by the preacher as a helping hand from the sky turns out on inspection to be a waterspout — run.
Providence (n.) is a drama in which the poet and the prompter are one, and the actor so lives his part that it is doubtful whether he puts words in the prompter's mouth or the prompter in his.
Providence (n.) can be believed in without trying to permeate every accident with the thought; to will the ethical undisturbed by the indifferent is sound health.
Providence (n.) is not an idea anyone is born with or acquires by education; until sin is reached, the genius finds only fate.
Providence (n.) that no sparrow falls without God's will concerns the sparrow too; that God is gracious concerns only the Christian.
Providence (n.) that cared for individuals only in general would be the last thought a man could bear, and even then he prays, God help me bear it, and so makes God care for him in particular.