« All Us Quotes · Vincent de Paul's Page
Us Quotes by Vincent de Paul
- 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…
- [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…
- . . . Our Lord humbles in order to raise up, and allows the suffering of interior and exterior afflictions in order to bring about…
- 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…
- [L]et us work to rid ourselves of our attacks of over-zealousness especially when it offends against respect, esteem, and charity.
- In God's name, Monsieur, let us remain indifferent; let us strive to be equally attached to whatever obedience marks out for us, be it agreeable…
- I know well, Monsieur, how much you have to endure in your present duty, and I ask Our Lord to strengthen you in your difficulties.…
- In the name of God, Monsieur, let us not be so little attached to God's service that we yield to a useless fear which may…
- Experience has shown us that virtue puts down only shallow roots in those who are there for just a short time
- God allows us to give rise to the practice of two beautiful virtues: perseverance, which leads us to attain the goal, and constancy, which helps…
- 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…
- 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…
- There is no act of charity that is not accompanied by justice or that permits us to do more than we reasonably can.
- That's what our Rules engage us to do, to help poor persons, our lords and masters.
- In a word, we are like the servants of the centurion in the Gospel with regard to the bishops, insofar as when they say to…
- I feel so strongly about the truths Our Lord taught us by word and example that I cannot help but see how everything done according…
- We must endeavor to have God reign sovereignly in us, and then in others. The trouble with me is that I take more care to…
- Would that God, Monsieur, had rendered us worthy of spending our lives, as Our Lord did, for the salvation of those poor souls so far…
- Let us reflect that we shall always do God's Will and He will do ours when we carry out that of our Superiors.
- Providence must call us and we must follow it, if we are to go forward confidently.
- 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…
- Since God is satisfied with our good will and honest efforts, let us also be satisfied with the outcome He gives to them, and our…
- Let us be submissive to Providence, He will see to our affairs in His own time and in His own way
- [T]hese losses of the Church in the past hundred years give us reason to fear in the present misfortune that in another hundred years we…
- [L]et us believe that all is going along the best in the world when we take no satisfaction in it, provided we humble ourselves for…
More Ways to Read Us Quotes by Vincent de Paul
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong