“Do you think this will discredit you? We would have to keep ourselves shut up in a box not to be exposed to some annoyance or other!” – St. Vincent de Paul – O Father, sometimes I am overly sensitive about the opinions of others. Never let...
“Though for a time we may have yielded to temptation, let us now take courage and conquer the enemy by doing violence to self.” – St. Vincent de Paul Forgive me, Lord, for the times I have yielded to temptation and sinned. Knowing that you love me so...
Spiritual men rise above covetousness and master it to the point of depriving themselves voluntarily of their own satisfactions, but only with difficulty do they succeed in truly loving the hurt that comes to them from others. (IV:55).
“In the name of God, let us have ever more and more confidence in Him; let Him guide our little barque; if it is useful and pleasing to Him, He will save it from shipwreck and no matter how the importance and variety of the works of others threatens to swamp it,...
