"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." (CW 1:22) - 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...

"Insensitivity 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." (CCD 12:261) - St. Vincent de Paul - Give me, Lord, a...

"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 -...

"You must look forward. At all events this life is worth possessing, if it were only because while we have it we are candidates for a better one." (CW 1:47) - St. Elizabeth Ann Seton - Lord, help me to put away all the burdens of the past and the fears I have for the...

"Are you weary after all the happenings and difficulties of the day? Well, in the evening you have this beneficial refreshment which will give energy to all your actions." - St. Vincent de Paul - When cares wear me down, restore and renew me, Lord, through the reading...

"After a storm comes sunshine, and the good God, who casts down and raises up again, makes joy succeed affliction, and lets the effects of his power be in the measure of our hope founded on goodness." (CCD 6:140) - St. Vincent de Paul - Dear God, I put my trust in you...