It is our duty to prefer the service of the poor to everything else and to offer such service as quickly as possible. If a needy person requires medicine or other help during prayer time, do whatever has to be done with peace of mind. Offer the deed to God as your prayer.
–Saint Vincent de Paul (1581-1660)
If a needy person requires medicine or other help during prayer time, do whatever has to be done with peace of mind. Offer the deed to God as your prayer. Do not become upset or feel guilty because you interrupted your prayer to serve the poor. God is not neglected if you leave him for such service. One of God’s works is merely interrupted so that another can be carried out.
–Saint Vincent de Paul (1581-1660)
Our hearts must be changed; they must be purified as gold from which the dross is melted by fire before it comes from the crucible bright and glittering.
–Saint John of Ávila (1500-1569)
Affliction or consolation, health or sickness, is all one to a heart that loves. Since we wish only to please God, it should be enough for us that His Will is accomplished.
–Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647-1690)
To touch the poor to know, love and serve God is to do in part what the Savior of the world came to do on earth, to bring about the Kingdom of God.
–Saint Joan Antide-Thouret (1765-1826)
The true Christian should be willing to endure the sufferings of the spirit as Jesus Christ did when He was betrayed by one of His disciples, denied by another, and abandoned by all.
–Saint John Bosco (1815-1888)
