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God’s divine goodness is very pleased with the way you are resisting nature in its inclination for change.

— Vincent de Paul, VII: 470

God’s divine goodness is merciful to us when it pleases Him to allow us to encounter blame and public contempt.

— Vincent de Paul, V: 230

God’s Divine Goodness asks that we never do good in any place to make ourselves look important.

— Vincent de Paul, II: 315

God, you see before You a Company that longs only for the grace to observe your teachings, to model itself on Your way of acting and to advance in the ways of holiness You have prescribed for it.

— Vincent de Paul, XII: 150

God will give you His own Spirit, and by means of His light, you will illuminate souls whom vice and ignorance are keeping in the dark.

— Vincent de Paul, IV: 131

God will do through you alone what all men put together could not do without Him.

— Vincent de Paul, IV: 129

Charity toward the neighbor is an infallible sign of the true children of God.

— Vincent de Paul, XIIIb: 8

God uses the most inferior materials for the extraordinary workings of His grace.

— Vincent de Paul, XI: 10

God takes wonderful pleasure in seeing the suffering of a soul who endures it patiently for love of Him.

— Vincent de Paul, XI: 362

God takes away the fear of death from those who have feared it during their lives and who have practiced charity toward the poor.

— Vincent de Paul, I: 587

God sometimes allows these great disturbances, which unsettle the most secure States, to remind earthly sovereigns that they are answerable to His kingship and are just as dependent as their own subjects.

— Vincent de Paul, V: 449-450

God sanctifies souls by crosses, just as He has redeemed them by His own cross.

— Vincent de Paul, IV: 180)

God raises up and puts down wherever He pleases and whomsoever He wishes. It is for us to adore His ways and trust in His goodness.

— Vincent de Paul, V: 450

God raises up and humbles us, consoles and afflicts us, according as he sees us disposed to profits by these states.

— Vincent de Paul, III: 382

God providence will never fail us as long as we do not fail in His service.

— Vincent de Paul, IV: 284

God preserve us from ever aspiring to establish ourselves on the ruins of others.

— Vincent de Paul, VI: 30

God often wants to build lasting benefits on the patience of those who undertake them.

— Vincent de Paul, IV: 290

God often delays the conclusion of a holy endeavor so that those involved in it might merit the grace by the length of the work, their patience and their prayers.

— Vincent de Paul, III: 614

God knows what is best for us, and He will give it to us at the right time if, like children who have perfect trust in such a good father, we abandon ourselves to Him.

— Vincent de Paul, VI: 331

God is with the simple and humble; He assists them, blesses their work, blesses their undertakings.

— Vincent de Paul, XII: 21

God is the Master and does all for the best. Let us leave the care of everything to Him.

— Vincent de Paul, I: 350

God is sovereignly glorified by our abandonment to His direction, without our discussing the reason for His Will, except to say that His Will is His reason and His reason is His Will.

— Vincent de Paul, I: 551

Peace is worth more than all worldly possessions.

— Vincent de Paul, III: 612

God is our All and leads us to Himself by Himself.

— Vincent de Paul, III: 603

God is love and wants us to go to Him through love.

— Vincent de Paul, I: 81

God is always the same and deserves to be served now as formerly.

— Vincent de Paul, VI: 144

God intends to make a good saint of you in paradise, since He is leading you along the way of the cross.

— Vincent de Paul, VI: 428

God Himself will be your support and your courage, all the more complete since you will have no refuge or trust but in Him alone.

— Vincent de Paul, IV: 283

God has riches in abundance; until now, you have lacked nothing; why are you fearful for the future?

— Vincent de Paul, VII: 171

God has preserved you as the apple of His eye.

— Vincent de Paul, II: 290
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