Vincent de Paul Quotes

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• We should spend as much time in thanking God for his benefits as we do in asking him for them.
• Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.
• We should strive to keep our hearts open to the sufferings and wretchedness of other people, and pray continually that God may grant us that…
• All comes at the proper time to him who knows how to wait.
• We must love our neighbor as being made in the image of God and as an object of His love.
• All beginnings are somewhat strange; but we must have patience, and little by little, we shall find things, which at first were obscure, becoming clearer.
• Remember, Monsieur that roses are not gathered except in the midst of thorns and that heroic acts of virtue are accomplished only in weakness.
• Perfection consists in a constant perseverance to acquire the virtues and become proficient in their practice, because on God's road, not to advance is to…
• [A] truly humble spirit humbles itself as much amid honors as amid insults, acting like the honeybee which makes its honey equally as well from…
• [W]ork at ridding yourself of the esteem you have had up to now for the glitter and sparkle of virtue and the vain applause of…
• One beautiful diamond is worth more than a mountain of stones, and one virtuous act of acquiescence and submission is better than an abundance of…
• God has granted me today a very particular fondness for requesting of Him that same virtue of ever choosing the worst and that which is…
• 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.
• Always be quite simple and sincere and ask God to grant me those two virtues.
• . . . Our Lord humbles in order to raise up, and allows the suffering of interior and exterior afflictions in order to bring about…
• In order to become soundly virtuous, it is advisable to make good practical resolutions concerning particular acts of the virtues and to be faithful in…
• Ordinarily, God allows these things [i.e. evil suggestions and wickedness] to happen to free us from some hidden pride and to engender in us holy…
• It is true that zeal is the soul of the virtues, but most certainly, Monsieur, it must be according to knowledge, as Saint Paul says;…
• [E]xcess in the practice of virtue is no less imperfect than the lack of it.
• [L]et us work to rid ourselves of our attacks of over-zealousness especially when it offends against respect, esteem, and charity.

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