"May the radiance of your charity be a beaming light, and may there never appear amongst you, either in the community, or with outsiders, or in speaking about them, any rivalry, jealousy or that spirit of the world which inclines us to criticize, blame or contradict...

"God communicates himself more fully to the soul deprived of human consolation." - St. Louise de Marillac It is a great consolation to know you are always present within me, Lord, willing to listen, comfort and understand, even when there is no one else to support or...

"Changing places does not change a man." - St. Vincent de Paul - O Lord, when I am tempted to think that a change of place will change me, help me to see that I am the one who needs to do the changing.

"Foresight is a good thing as long as it is subjected to God and His plans-- but it becomes excessive when we put ourselves out to avoid something we apprehend. We expect more from our own endeavors than from God's Providence and we imagine we are doing much when we...

"One of the first rules of my happiness is to be satisfied with good in whatever degree I can attain it." - St. Elizabeth Ann Seton - Heavenly Father, even as an earthly father is pleased with the simplest show of affection from his child, I know you are pleased with...

"Insensibility prevents us from being touched at the sight of the corporal and spiritual wretchedness of our neighbor; it leaves us without charity, without zeal, unmoved at the offenses committed against God." - St. Vincent de Paul - Give me, Lord, a compassionate...

"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 these feelings prevent me...

"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 much you died to...

"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, it...

"Sometimes a work fails, not because a similar institution has been set up beside it and outdone it, but it has brought about its own ruin by making use of means contrary to the spirit of Christ in order to maintain itself in the first place." - St. Vincent de Paul -...