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God uproots the vine that He Himself has not planted.

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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. . . [A]s a rule, the most learned persons do not produce the greatest results. We see that only too often.
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. . . Our Lord humbles in order to raise up, and allows the suffering of interior and exterior afflictions in order to bring about peace. He often desires some things more than we do, but wants us to merit the grace of accomplishing them by several practices of virtue and to beg for this with many prayers.
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Remember the maxim of the Romans which states that by union and counsel we can achieve anything.
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Our Lord and the saints accomplished more by suffering than by acting.
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The vine-stock bears fruit as long as it is attached to its stem apart from that, no.
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There are good, God-fearing persons who still fall into certain faults, and it is better to bear with them than to be hard on them.
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I have never come away from you without reflecting that the Spirit of God and His holy workings reside in you.
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The works of God are not accomplished when we wish them, but whenever it pleases Him.
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If after so much effort and prayer, the matter is not successful, it will be a clear sign that God does not will it.
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It is a ruse of the devil, by which he deceives good people, to induce them to do more than they are able, so that they end up not being able to do anything. The spirit of God urges one gently to do the good that can be done reasonably, so that it may be done perseveringly and for a long time.
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Always be quite simple and sincere and ask God to grant me those two virtues.
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We should spend as much time in thanking God for his benefits as we do in asking him for them.
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That's what our Rules engage us to do, to help poor persons, our lords and masters.
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Indeed, good is not good if one does not suffer in doing it.
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His Divine Goodness asks that we never do good in any place to make ourselves look important but that we always consider Him directly, immediately, and without intermediary in all our actions.
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[M]ay you be more advanced in the school of solid virtue, which is practiced in an excellent way in the midst of suffering, and which keeps good servants of God in fear when they have nothing to suffer!
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[E]xcess in the practice of virtue is no less imperfect than the lack of it.
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. . . Practice teaching catechism and preaching. Missionaries must apply themselves to these tasks and although they do not accomplish them as successfully as others do, according to the opinion of men, it must be enough for them that they are doing the Will of God and perhaps producing more real fruit.
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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!
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We must hold as an irrefutable maxim that the difficulties we have with our neighbor arise more from our immortified moods than from anything else.
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