As an overruling providence may succeed our wishes, let us rear an offspring in every respect worthy to fill the most illustrious stations of their predecessors.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?
Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.
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.
Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.
Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers.
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.
When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.
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!
The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.
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.