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How to use the word Providence in a Sentence?

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At the beginning of each new day, I ask for protection and eternal blessing And divine guidance and protection from everything that is dangerous or negative in life and blessing for everything in your life and guidance so that I can get what I want with ease And make yourself under divine providence, and you will be in complete and complete safety, for you deserve it.

Abdel Monemim

added by abdomoneim1990
1 year ago

No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means and to depart from the road which Providence has pointed us to so plainly; I cannot believe it will ever come to pass.

George Washington

added by Normando
1 year ago

Two years ago, we began meeting with Black leaders to advance a social justice agenda in Providence, centering voices of community members who deserve to be engaged in policy decision-making, i thank the Municipal Reparations Commission for their community-driven approach to making these recommendations, and outlining a path forward for the City and external institutions. While we know the City cannot advance this work alone, my team and I look forward to working with all stakeholders to put recommendations into action to close the racial wealth and equity gap.

Jorge Elorza

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Following the demonstration, the Rhode Island State Police and Providence Police Department received complaints of physical assaults that occurred during the demonstration. As the result of a joint investigation between the two agencies, a Providence Police Patrolman, identified as Jeann Lugo, age 35, was arrested on a State Police affidavit and arrest warrant on the charges of simple assault and disorderly conduct.

Rhode Island

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This contract is going to govern our children's education for the next 50 and 60 years in the City of Providence. ... We only get one chance to do this right and this is not a decision that can be made in secret without any engagement in the community, we're here demanding that the community to have the opportunity to know what's in the contract and to be able to provide thoughts and input before it becomes official.

Jorge Elorza

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The word' Democratic Providence' is for God's divine providence in giving Roger Williams a place to establish the American principle of religious liberty and church-state separation, you want to wipe that away ?

Patrick Conley

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If you don't appreciate history, you don't have much of a future. By Dan Dalessio. North Providence, Rhode Island 02911

Walt Whitman

added by anonymous
3 years ago

That's what providence wanted and I accept this as it is, but this is not a reason to change my way of life, haredim basically are satisfied with their lives - this way of life works for them.

Benjamin Brown

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Their point of departure is different and their paths diverse; nevertheless, each seems called by some secret design of Providence one day to hold in its hands the destinies of half the world. (on Russia and America)

Alex de Tocqueville

added by Normando
4 years ago

...Enlightened by a benign religion, professed, indeed, and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man, acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here and his greater happiness hereafter - with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people? Still one thing more... a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.

Thomas Jefferson

added by Normando
4 years ago

Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis 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

added by anonymous
6 years ago

Mother has always and will always personify EWTN, the network that God asked her to found, her accomplishments and legacies in evangelization throughout the world are nothing short of miraculous and can only be attributed to divine Providence and her unwavering faithfulness to Our Lord.

Eternal Word Television Network

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Obviously, anyone who can engage in an affair for months and at the same time carry on by still claiming to be 'with firm reliance on divine providence,' there are a lot of people who think she could be capable of anything.

Steve McNeal

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Our abilities and influences here at Providence may have evolved over the years, and the overall picture can get a little clearer after a decade, but otherwise I don't think our vision has really changed very much from day one to year ten. Basically it's about a lot of hard work -- and hopefully a lot of fun.

Michael Cimarusti

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I don't see how anyone could fail to be troubled and moved by the stockade, with its deadlines, escape tunnels and Providence Spring, that subtext of such clean, well-kept grounds is chaos and human limitation, and I can't walk across the stockade field without feeling challenged and defeated by its awful irony. Even the sky looks different from there.

Judson Mitcham

Found on CNN
8 years ago

To despoil oneself of all wealth in Jesus’ name is a sign of faith in Divine Providence.

Francis Cardinal George, OMI

added by anonymous
8 years ago

If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, God speed her! She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of the great purposes of Providence for the advantage of mankind.

William Ewart Gladstone

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Man is supreme lord and master Of his own ruin and disaster, Controls his fate, but nothing less In ordering his own happiness: For all his care and providence Is too feeble a defence To render it secure and certain Against the injuries of Fortune; And oft, in spite of all his wit, Is lost by one unlucky hit, And ruined with a circumstance, And mere punctilio of a chance.

Butler

added by anonymous
12 years ago

It is a proverbial expression that every man is the maker of his own fortune, and we usually regard it as implying that every man by his folly or wisdom prepares good or evil for himself. But we may view it in another light, namely, that we may so accommodate ourselves to the dispositions of Providence as to be happy in our lot, whatever may be its privations.

Von Humboldt

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.

T. T. Munger

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?

Author Unknown

added by anonymous
13 years ago

If by saying that all men are born free and equal, you mean that they are all equally born; it is true, but true in no other sense; birth, talent, labor, virtue, and providence, are forever making differences.

Eugene Edwards

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.

Tyron Edwards

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct the eternal will? Seek virtue, and of that possest, To Providence resign the rest.

Gay

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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