Vincent de Paul Spiritual Quotes — Page 5

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Saint, Priest

Spiritual

“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 Annoyed Offended You

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Vincent de Paul

Saint, Priest

Spiritual

“...it is difficult to master one's feelings and be exact in everything in the midst of many affairs”

Feelings Wisdom Affair

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Spiritual

“...Omit nothing which can advance his work, and not blame others for the delay.”

Faith Blame

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Spiritual

“Nevertheless, when one is ill, one should be submissive to the doctor and obey him.”

Wisdom Doctors

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Spiritual

“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.”

Teaching Faith Opposites

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Spiritual

“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.”

Men Faith Angel

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Spiritual

“...Seek counsel of very pious, disinterested persons, and follow the call of O[ur] L[ord] and the advice of those persons.”

Persons Faith Advice

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Spiritual

“Furthermore, the apostolic life does not exclude contemplation but encompasses it and profits by it to know better the eternal truths it must proclaim”

Doe Faith Contemplation

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Spiritual

“It will be easier for you to bring him around to where you want him more by gentleness and patience than by being too uncompromising.”

Want Easier Uncompromising

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Spiritual

“We must be firm but not rough in our guidance and avoid an insipid kind of meekness, which is ineffective. We will learn from Our Lord how our meekness should always be accompanied by humility and grace so as to attract hearts to Him and not cause anyone to turn away from Him.”

Heart Grace Humility

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Spiritual

“. . . [T]hese [ideas] are only suggestions of the evil spirit who, to jeopardize your salvation, suggests to you extraordinary works that are beyond your strength, under the fine pretext of practicing, on your own, the spiritual and corporal works of mercy . . .”

Ideas Spiritual Faith

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Spiritual

“God's affairs are accomplished gradually and almost imperceptibly and His spirit is neither violent nor tempestuous.”

Faith Spirit Affair

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Vincent de Paul — Spiritual Quotes

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