Vincent de Paul Quotes about Giving

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Since God is satisfied with our good will and honest efforts, let us also be satisfied with the outcome He gives to them, and our actions will never be without good results

Since God is satisfied with our good will and honest efforts, let us also be satisfied with the outcome He gives to them, and our actions will never be without good results

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Faith, Giving, Effort

Saint Vincent De Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: August 1646-March 1650”

God always gives a great blessing to humble beginnings than to those that start with the chiming of bells.

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Humble, Blessing, Giving

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.

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Order, Giving, Water

Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1993). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”, New City Pr

You can give me no greater consolation nor render greater service to your neighbor than to place yourself in a condition to serve him for a long time

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Leadership, Long, Giving

Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1992). “Correspondence, conferences, documents”, New City Pr

Do not be afraid of undertaking too much of what you can do without coming and going; but fear only the thought of doing more than you are doing and more than God is giving you the means to do.

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Wisdom, Mean, Giving

Saint Vincent de Paul (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: I. Correspondence. v. 1. 1607-1639”, BNA Books (Bureau of National Affairs)

Scandal often does as much harm to the listeners as to those who devise it, even if it were to do no other harm than disturb the mind, as it does, and give rise to temptations to speak or write about it to others.

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Wisdom, Writing, Giving

Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1992). “Correspondence, conferences, documents”, New City Pr

Our Lord is pleased to deprive us of temporal goods; may it please His Divine Goodness to give us spiritual ones!

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Faith, Spiritual, Giving

Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents”

[R]est assured that, when you remain thus in the state in which obedience has placed you, the merit of this same obedience extends over everything you do, giving each action inestimable value, even when things do not turn out as you wish.

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Wisdom, Giving, Wish

What you are saying is true of those who want everything to give way to them, nothing to oppose them, everything to go their way, people to obey them without comment or delay and, in a manner of speaking, to be adored.

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Leadership, People, Giving

Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”