Our Lord Quotes

• Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

  Martin Luther

  Friday, Spiritual, Jesus

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• Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

  Francis of Assisi

  Love, God, Christian

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• Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

  Francis of Assisi

  Love, Christian, Being Alone

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• Now may the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the eternal high priest himself, the Son of God Jesus Christ, build you up in faith and truth and in all gentleness and in all freedom from anger and forbearance and steadfastness and patient endurance and purity.

  Polycarp

  Jesus, Father, Son

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• Thus abide constantly with the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, so that the heart swallows the Lord and the Lord the heart, and the two become one.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Jesus, Heart, Two

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• ... bear with him as Our Lord bore with His disciples, who gave Him good reason to complain - at least, some of them did. Yet, He allowed them to remain in His company and tried to bring them around gently.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Complaining, Bears

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

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• I have made to God the offering you made to me of your heart and have asked him to unite mine with yours in that of Our Lord.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Heart, Offering

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

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• You say you are not happy in the Mission. That, in itself, is not a sign that God does not want you there. Perfect contentment is never to be found, in whatever place and condition one may be. This life is full of annoyances and troubles both of mind and of body; it is a state of continual agitation, which snatches peace of mind from those who think they possess it and eludes those who seek it. Did Our Lord lead an easy life?

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Thinking, Perfect

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

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

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Spiritual, Giving

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

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• [I]f the gentleness of your spirit needs a dash of vinegar, borrow a little from Our Lord's spirit. O Mademoiselle, how well He knew how to find a bittersweet remark when it is needed!

  Vincent de Paul

  Wisdom, Needs, Littles

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Saint Louise de Marillac, Frances Ryan, John E. Rybolt (1995). “Vincent de Paul and Louise de Marillac: Rules, Conferences, and Writings”, p.157, Paulist Press

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• When our Lord looked at us, He saw not only what we were -- He was faithful in seeing what we could become! He took away the curse of being and gave us the glorious blessing of becoming.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Blessing, Faithful, Saws

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• At the heart of our universe, each soul exists for God, in our Lord.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Heart, Soul, Lord

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “The Divine Milieu”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

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• You must moderate yourself according to your strength. When you have done all that you can to see that no Christian is perverted, you must find your consolation in Our Lord, who could prevent this misfortune and who is not doing so.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Christian, Done

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

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• [I]n order to raise a soul to the highest perfection, He allows it to pass through dryness, brambles, and combats, causing it thereby to honor the times of weariness in the life of His Son, Our Lord, who suffered various kinds of anguish and abandonment.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Son, Order

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• Three can do more than ten when Our Lord puts His hand to things, and He always does so when He takes away the means of doing otherwise.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Mean, Hands

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

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• That's what our Rules engage us to do, to help poor persons, our lords and masters.

  Vincent de Paul

  Charity, Helping, Lord

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• Would that God, Monsieur, had rendered us worthy of spending our lives, as Our Lord did, for the salvation of those poor souls so far removed from all assistance.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Soul, Lord

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”

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• Our Lord and the saints accomplished more by suffering than by acting.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Suffering, Acting

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”

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• With God's help, you will continue to succeed in your leadership and in your duties, because Our Lord's work is accomplished not so much by the multitude of workers as by the fidelity of the small number whom He calls.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Small Numbers, Succeed

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

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• Things arrange themselves with time. Only God can have everything to His liking; His servants should act as Our Lord did.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Lord, Should

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

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• So, do not dwell any longer on what you are, but consider Our Lord close by you and within you, ready to put His hand to the work as soon as you call upon Him for help, and you will see that all will go well.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Hands, Helping

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

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• I beg Our Lord, Monsieur, that we may be able to die to ourselves in order to rise with Him, that he may be the joy of your heart, the end and soul of your actions, and your glory in heaven. This will come to pass if, from now on, we humble ourselves as He humbled Himself, if we renounce our own satisfaction to follow Him by carrying our little crosses, and if we give our lives willingly, as He gave His, for our neighbor whom He loves so much and whom He wants us to love as ourselves.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Heart, Humble

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

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• The children of our Lord walk gladly in his ways; they have confidence in him, and so when they fall, they rise again; and if, instead of stopping to grumble about the stone they have tripped over, they humble themselves at their fall, this helps them to advance with great strides in his love.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Children, Fall

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• God has seen fit that, since our services are useful to many persons, everyone approves them, but only when they are carried out in the spirit of Our Lord.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Spirit, Fit

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

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• The first step to be taken by one who wishes to follow Christ is, according to Our Lord’s own words, that of renouncing himself - that is, his own senses, his own passions, his own will, his own judgement, and all the movements of nature, making to God a sacrifice of all these things, and of all their acts, which are surely sacrifices very acceptable to the Lord. And we must never grow weary of this; for if anyone having, so to speak, one foot already in Heaven, should abandon this exercise, when the time should come for him to put the other there, he would run much risk of being lost.

  St. Vincent

  Running, Taken, Passion

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