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The most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is humility. For, as he does not know at all how to employ it, neither does he know how to defend himself from it.
Vincent de Paul
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Vincent de Paul
Age: 79 †
Born: 1581
Born: April 24
Died: 1660
Died: September 27
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I am the only wretch who keeps on heaping new iniquities and abominations on myself. O Monsieur, how merciful God is to put up with me with so much patience and forbearance, and how weak and miserable I am to abuse his mercies so greatly!
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Let us do our duty well let us go straight to God let us work to become very humble, very patient, very mortified, and very charitable.
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... I am sure that you are the first to do what you teach them.
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Let us be submissive to Providence, He will see to our affairs in His own time and in His own way
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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.
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