Your son told M. de la Salle that he was only entering this state because you wanted him to, that he had longed for death because of it and that to humour you he would take minor orders. Now then, is that a vocation? (…) Leave it to God to guide him (…). Leave him to the guidance of God. He is well able to call him at another time if he wants to or to give him work suited to his well-being. [p. 66]

(St Vincent de Paul. From Jacques Delarue, The Holiness of Vincent de Paul, Geoffrey Chapman Ltd, London 1960, 132 pp)