Prudence, Prudent

The born Confessionist healed one day on the Sabbath explained with the Jews. For prudence, Jesus had sent him to rinse his eyes at the fountain of Shiloh, so the man had not seen his Savior before the miracle - James Tissot, Brooklyn Museum.

Cardinal virtue that combines the strength of the spirit and the faculty of Discernment. Both intellectual and moral, prudence designates a practical wisdom which disposes reason to the knowledge of truth in the conduct of life. The virtue of prudence is not to be confused with timidity or fear.

In "The Gospel as it was revealed to me"

• It is a sin to have greed for tomorrow which perhaps we will never see, but it is not a sin to be thrifty to secure bread, and to secure it for one's relatives in times of famine.
• Do not tempt your Neighbor, be prudent and charitable. If God has spared you certain sins, praise Him.
• "Be as prudent as serpents and as simple as Doves."
• Oh! Do you not know, my friends, that even the best things will be manipulated and presented to be able to accuse me with a semblance of justice? Come now. In the Future, be more obedient and more prudent.
• [I answered you] with that prudence which must never be separated from sincerity, both holy in the eyes of God. That prudence which is like the triple veil stretched between the Saint and the people, stretched to hide the secret of the King. That prudence that regulates Salton's words according to the subject who hears them, according to his intellectual capacity to understand, his spiritual purity and his justice. For certain truths, told to corrupted people, become for them objects of mockery, not veneration...