William Shakespeare on Providence
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“There is a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.”
“O God, thy arm was here; And not to us, but to thy arm alone, Ascribe we all!”
“He that doth the ravens feed, Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, Be comfort to my age!”
“For nought so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give.”
“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.”