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Prayer Quotes by Vincent de Paul
- We should spend as much time in thanking God for his benefits as we do in asking him for them.
- . . . Our Lord humbles in order to raise up, and allows the suffering of interior and exterior afflictions in order to bring about…
- [I]t is the maxim of the saints that when a matter has been decided in the presence of God after many prayers and the seeking…
- God often delays the conclusion of a holy endeavor so that those involved in it might merit its grace by the length of the work,…
- If after so much effort and prayer, the matter is not successful, it will be a clear sign that God does not will it.
- But the blessed Bishop of Geneva taught his nuns another kind of prayer, which even the sick can make: to remain peacefully in the presence…
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