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Own Quotes by Vincent de Paul
- 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…
- May God be pleased to make it known to you, and fill you increasingly with His Spirit, so that through you it may be poured…
- I beg Our Lord, Monsieur, that we may be able to die to ourselves in order to rise with Him, that he may be the…
- Let us be submissive to Providence, He will see to our affairs in His own time and in His own way
- It is no wonder you are tempted; on the contrary, it would be something new if you were not, because man's life is nothing but…
- . . . [T]hese [ideas] are only suggestions of the evil spirit who, to jeopardize your salvation, suggests to you extraordinary works that are beyond…
- Foresight is good when it is subject to the latter, but it becomes excessive when we are in a hurry to avoid something we fear.…
- With whose imperfections will you bear, and what insult are you capable of enduring, if a thoughtless word from your own Superior is unbearable?
- Is it not better to fail after asking advice than to risk acting on our own?
- Far from being a bad thing to seek advice, you must, on the contrary, do so when the matter is of any importance, or when…
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