Vincent de Paul

Vincent de Paul

Saint, Priest

Vincent de Paul was a French priest known for founding the Congregation of the Mission and the Daughters of Charity, focusing on serving the poor.

Faith Wisdom Men Heart Order Giving
Born
April 24, 1581
Died
September 27, 1660
Quotes
215
Rank
#5057

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"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. It is in such circumstances that we acquire virtue; where there is no suffering, there is little merit. My wish is that God may grant us great indifference with regard to duties. O Monsieur, how sure we would then be of doing His Holy Will, which is our sole aspiration, and how much peace and contentment we would enjoy, or so it seems to me!"

Suffering Contentment Wish
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"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 into the souls you guide, and your own soul may be more greatly sanctified!"

Faith Soul May
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"I have never come away from you without reflecting that the Spirit of God and His holy workings reside in you."

Faith Spirit Holy
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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"

Roots Virtue Shallow
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"When in Rome, you must do as the Romans do and accept the local customs, if they are not immoral."

Wisdom Rome Accepting
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"If you do not see any good in these persons, then say nothing, but if you do see some, speak about it to honor God in them because all good proceeds from Him."

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"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 fall back since man never remains in the same condition."

Perseverance Fall Men
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"We are still tossed about by the disturbances of this life, which is like a stormy sea, where those who are not attached to J[esus] C[hrist] and the duties of their state, as was our dear departed, are shipwrecked."

Faith Sea Departed
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"I can understand that the man you told me about has offended you, and I am very annoyed that he forgot himself like that. However, you must not consider what he did as coming from him but rather as a trial which God wishes to make of your patience. This virtue will be even more a virtue in you who are more sensitive by nature and have given less cause for the offense that you have received."

Men Offended You Annoyed
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"...it is difficult to master one's feelings and be exact in everything in the midst of many affairs"

Wisdom Feelings Affair
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"So, do not dwell any longer on what you are, but consider Our Lord close by you and within you, ready to put His hand to the work as soon as you call upon Him for help, and you will see that all will go well."

Faith Hands Helping
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"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; that means: according to knowledge of experience. And because young people ordinarily do not possess this experiential knowledge, their zeal goes to excess, especially in those who have a natural asperity."

Mean People Soul
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"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 to that teaching always succeeds perfectly well, while things done the opposite way have a quite different result."

Faith Teaching Opposites
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"Just as stinginess is blameworthy, so is facility in paying more for things than they are worth..."

Wisdom Faults Stinginess
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"That's what our Rules engage us to do, to help poor persons, our lords and masters."

Charity Helping Lord
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"If we divested ourselves, once and for all, of all self-will, we would then be in a position of being sure of doing the Will of God, in which the angels find all their delight and men all their happiness."

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"What you are saying is true of those who want everything to give way to them, nothing to oppose them, everything to go their way, people to obey them without comment or delay and, in a manner of speaking, to be adored."

Leadership People Giving
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"If there is any danger in the present weather, in the name of God, Monsieur, wait until spring"

Wisdom Spring Names
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"If, in order to succeed in an enterprise, I were obliged to choose between fifty deer commanded by a lion, and fifty lions commanded by a deer, I should consider myself more certain of success with the first group than with the second."

Order Groups Lions
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"...Seek counsel of very pious, disinterested persons, and follow the call of O[ur] L[ord] and the advice of those persons."

Faith Advice Persons
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