Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.

I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities.

The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.

The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.

Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life.

Hope is not a matter of age.

It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges.

My family background was deeply Christian.

After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.

What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.

People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.

Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.

Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.

It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.

When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

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.

Through the humbling dispensations of Divine Providence, men are sometimes fitted for his service.

I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with whom I desired only to live; yet the dreadful apprehensions I have of what is coming upon this land may help to make me submissive to this providence, though more bitter.

We just did a show in Providence, Rhode Island, and we got three puppy shots before we even got on the air, which was great. Although sometimes you get flashed by some puppies that you'd rather not see. They're more like mongrels.

I do here speak it before the court. I look that the Lord should deliver me by his providence.

I am most thankful to Almighty Providence for mercies received, and determined still to press the case into public notice as a token of gratitude.

I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.

I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps.

It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.

You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of the human race.

The longer I live, the more faith I have in Providence, and the less faith in my interpretation of Providence.

There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.

When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.

Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.

Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence.

Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.

Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

About the twenty-third year of my age, I had many fresh and heavenly openings, in respect to the care and providence of the Almighty over his creatures in general, and over man as the most noble amongst those which are visible.

Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England.

The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.

The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

I believe God rules all by his divine providence and that the stars by his permission are instruments.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.

You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.

I go the way that Providence dictates with the assurance of a sleepwalker.

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.