Abandonment Divine Providence Quotes & Sayings

Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very distant past where dream merges with reality, and they laughed softly, rejoicing at something. — Leo Tolstoy

Only religion could justify killing an adult with a family because he carried out abortions of unwanted or unhealthy fetuses that don't even have the intelligence of a typical fish. — David Alan Harvey

Take your necklace off."
"Why?"
"Because if you don't, I can't kiss you. — Brenna Yovanoff

Chosen soul, how will you bring this about? What steps will you take to reach the high level to which God is calling you? The means of holiness and salvation are known to everybody, since they are found in the Gospel; the masters of the spiritual life have explained them; the Saints have practiced them ... These means are: sincere humility, unceasing prayer, complete self-denial, abandonment to Divine Providence, and obedience to the will of God. — Louis De Montfort

The carrying out into practise of a crude idea as is being generally done is, I hold, nothing but a waste of energy, money and time. My — Nikola Tesla

I'm not terribly intelligent - I have no university degree, you know. — Rosamunde Pilcher

Why don't we just buy one airplane and let the pilots take turns flying it. — Calvin Coolidge

There are many who say to the Lord, "I give myself wholly to Thee, without any reserve," but there are few who embrace the practice of this abandonment, which consists in receiving with a certain indifference every sort of event, as it happens in conformity with Divine Providence, as well afflictions as consolations, contempt and reproaches as honor and glory. — Saint Francis De Sales

Again he trailed off into ominous silence. — Terry Brooks

Happiness has little to do with what is going on around you, and a lot to do with what is going on inside you. — Alan Cohen