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“The most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is humility. For, as he does not know at all how to employ it, neither does he know how to defend himself from it.”
-- Vincent de Paul

#Powerful #Humility #Devil
“Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.”
-- Vincent de Paul

#Kindness #Practice #Light
“We should spend as much time in thanking God for his benefits as we do in asking him for them.”
-- Vincent de Paul

#Prayer #Thank God #Asking
“Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.”
-- Vincent de Paul

#Truth #Lying #Humility
“We must love our neighbor as being made in the image of God and as an object of His love.”
-- Vincent de Paul

#Love #Neighbor #Made
“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 spirit of compassion which is truly the spirit of God.”
-- Vincent de Paul

#Heart #Compassion #People
“Charity is the cement which binds Communities to God and persons to one another . . .”
-- Vincent de Paul

#Community #Charity #Cement
“All comes at the proper time to him who knows how to wait.”
-- Vincent de Paul

#Inspirational #Waiting
“Far from rejecting such a good man as you, He never even abandons a wicked man who hopes for His mercy.”
-- Vincent de Paul

#Faith #Men #Good Man
“Let us allow God to act; He brings things to completion when we least expect it.”
-- Vincent de Paul

#Faith #Completion
“He also always blesses humble beginnings much more than those accompanied by a lot of show.”
-- Vincent de Paul

#Faith #Humble #Bless
“There are good, God-fearing persons who still fall into certain faults, and it is better to bear with them than to be hard on them.”
-- Vincent de Paul

#Wisdom #Fall #Faults
“Even convicts, with whom I have spent some time, are not won over in any other way. Whenever I happened to speak sharply to them, I spoiled everything; on the contrary, when I praised them for their resignation and sympathized with them in their sufferings; when I told them they were fortunate to have their purgatory in this world, when I kissed their chains, showed compassion for their distress, and expressed sorrow for their misfortune, it was then that they listened to me, gave glory to God, and opened themselves to salvation.”
-- Vincent de Paul

#Compassion #Suffering #Sorrow
“Nature makes trees put down deep roots before having them bear fruit, and even this is done gradually.”
-- Vincent de Paul

#Wisdom #Roots #Tree
“We should take as a maxim never to be surprised at current difficulties, no more than at a passing breeze, because with a little patience we shall see them disappear. Time changes everything.”
-- Vincent de Paul

#Wisdom #Littles #Disappear
“do not be surprised by your trials, since the Son of God has chosen them for our salvation.”
-- Vincent de Paul

#Faith #Son #Trials
“We must be full reservoirs in order to let our water spill out without becoming empty, and we must possess the spirit with which we want them to be animated, for no one can give what he does not have.”
-- Vincent de Paul

#Order #Giving #Water
“. . . [I]n the kingdom of charity, one prefers to suffer some inconvenience rather than inconvenience the neighbor.”
-- Vincent de Paul

#Suffering #Charity #Kingdoms
“And what are we doing if we are not doing God's Will?”
-- Vincent de Paul

#Faith
“We cannot better assure our eternal happiness than by living and dying in the service of the poor, in the arms of Providence, and with genuine renouncement of ourselves in order to follow Jesus Christ.”
-- Vincent de Paul

#Jesus #Order #Dying
“With God's help, you will continue to succeed in your leadership and in your duties, because Our Lord's work is accomplished not so much by the multitude of workers as by the fidelity of the small number whom He calls.”
-- Vincent de Paul

#Faith #Numbers #Succeed
“[L]et us work to rid ourselves of our attacks of over-zealousness especially when it offends against respect, esteem, and charity.”
-- Vincent de Paul

#Charity #Esteem #Values
“[A] truly humble spirit humbles itself as much amid honors as amid insults, acting like the honeybee which makes its honey equally as well from the dew that falls on the wormwood as from that which falls on the rose.”
-- Vincent de Paul

#Fall #Humble #Rose
“[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 the world, which Our Lord so assiduously avoided and so often recommends us to shun, and that you labor in earnest to acquire true and solid virtues.”
-- Vincent de Paul

#World #Glitter #Sparkle
“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 temptation, and no one is exempt from it, especially those who have given themselves to God; his own Son even passed through this trial. But if it is necessary for everyone, it is also a source of merit for those to whom God grants the grace of turning all things to good, as you do.”
-- Vincent de Paul

#Faith #Son #Men
“I have never made any distinction between those who have taken vows and those who have not; some should not be overburdened in order to spare others.”
-- Vincent de Paul

#Faith #Taken #Order
“[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 this and redouble our confidence in God.”
-- Vincent de Paul

#Faith #Believe #Humble
“. . . [R]estlessness usually stems from pride and from being discontented with one's lot in life.”
-- Vincent de Paul

#Faith #Pride #Stem
“[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 may lose the Church entirely in Europe. So, keeping this fear in mind, blessed are those who cooperate in extending the Church elsewhere.”
-- Vincent de Paul

#Faith #Blessed #Loss
“If you no longer have any income, you will not be neglected-you will not starve to death. . . . We panic at first, but God does not always allow the evil that is feared to happen.”
-- Vincent de Paul

#Faith #Evil #Income

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