Vincent De Paul Quotes
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Vincent De Paul Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Experience has shown us that virtue puts down only shallow roots in those who are there for just a short time
[I]n the kingdom of charity, one prefers to suffer some inconvenience rather than inconvenience the neighbor.
Let us reflect that we shall always do God's Will and He will do ours when we carry out that of our Superiors.
Oh! how happy the man of means who uses his wealth and his life for the greater glory of God, from whom he has received them!
We must hold as an irrefutable maxim that the difficulties we have with our neighbor arise more from our immortified moods than from anything else.
In this way, through experience they will be formed adequately, will be encouraged, and will be capable of rendering service to God.
I have never come away from you without reflecting that the Spirit of God and His holy workings reside in you.
Rarely is any good done without difficulty; the devil is too subtle and the world too corrupt not to attempt to nip such a good work in the bud
You say you experience great difficulty in the mission. Alas! Monsieur, there is no lot in life where there is nothing to be endured.
I have made to God the offering you made to me of your heart and have asked him to unite mine with yours in that of Our Lord.
God's affairs are accomplished gradually and almost imperceptibly and His spirit is neither violent nor tempestuous.
There are good, God-fearing persons who still fall into certain faults, and it is better to bear with them than to be hard on them.
Who will excuse us before God for the loss of such a great number of people, who could be saved by the slight assistance we could give them?
Furthermore, the apostolic life does not exclude contemplation but encompasses it and profits by it to know better the eternal truths it must proclaim
Be acted upon rather than active. In this way, God will do through you alone what all men put together could not do without Him.
Seek counsel of very pious, disinterested persons, and follow the call of O[ur] L[ord] and the advice of those persons.
Far from rejecting such a good man as you, He never even abandons a wicked man who hopes for His mercy.
If after so much effort and prayer, the matter is not successful, it will be a clear sign that God does not will it.
There is nothing good that does not meet with opposition, and it should not be valued any less because it encounters objections.
[E]ven if the whole world should rise up to destroy us, nothing will happen except that God, in whom we have put our hope, will allow.
Three can do more than ten when Our Lord puts His hand to things, and He always does so when He takes away the means of doing otherwise.
Never betray His principles for any reason whatsoever, and take great care not to spoil God's affairs by too much haste in them.
It will be easier for you to bring him around to where you want him more by gentleness and patience than by being too uncompromising.
Things arrange themselves with time. Only God can have everything to His liking; His servants should act as Our Lord did.
Remember, Monsieur, that Saint Augustine says that a person who does not obey the doctors is doing his best to kill himself.
With whose imperfections will you bear, and what insult are you capable of enduring, if a thoughtless word from your own Superior is unbearable?
Make an effort to serve good bread and good meat and not to sell the better wine so as to serve what is inferior ...
It is not light they need but strength, and strength permeates through the external balm of words and good example.
Let us do our duty well; let us go straight to God; let us work to become very humble, very patient, very mortified, and very charitable.
Laws must never be made compatible with crimes, no more than lying should be in harmony with the truth.
If we want to find the manna hidden in our vocation, let us restrict and confine all our desires within it.
Just as stinginess is blameworthy so is the fault of facility in paying more for things than they are worth ...
Naturally, everyone loves his freedom, but we must beware of this as of a broad road that leads to perdition.
Nature makes trees put down deep roots before having them bear fruit, and even this is done gradually.
You should not open your mouth except to express gratitude for benefits you have received, and never to mention your discontent.
The angels would become incarnate if they could, so that they might come to earth to imitate the example and virtues of the Son of God!
Remember, Monsieur that roses are not gathered except in the midst of thorns and that heroic acts of virtue are accomplished only in weakness.
Our Lord is pleased to deprive us of temporal goods; may it please His Divine Goodness to give us spiritual ones!
There is no act of charity that is not accompanied by justice or that permits us to do more than we reasonably can.
I have never made any distinction between those who have taken vows and those who have not; some should not be overburdened in order to spare others.
[N]or should you move so fast! The works of God do not proceed in that way; they come about of themselves, and those He does not create soon perish.
If you think something should be done, take the trouble to write to me about it, and together we will decide the time and manner of doing it.
You can give me no greater consolation nor render greater service to your neighbor than to place yourself in a condition to serve him for a long time
Experience teaches that what is feasible at the beginning is sometimes harmful as things go on, or subject to troublesome inconveniences