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Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)

Book by Vincent de Paul · 4 quotes · Faith, Values, Virtue

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Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646) Quotes

“. . . Our Lord humbles in order to raise up, and allows the suffering of interior and exterior afflictions in order to bring about peace. He often desires some things more than we do, but wants us to merit the grace of accomplishing them by several practices of virtue and to beg for this with many prayers.”

“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.”