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The works of God are not accomplished when we wish them, but whenever it pleases Him.
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] truly humble spirit humbles itself as much amid honors as amid insults, acting like the honeybee which makes its honey equally as well from the dew that falls on the wormwood as from that which falls on the rose.
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All of you desire to belong entirely to God, and God also wants all of you to belong to Him
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A man who behaves poorly in a Community will not do well in a parish.
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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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. . . [R]estlessness usually stems from pride and from being discontented with one's lot in life.
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When we receive with an entire and perfect resignation the afflictions which God sends us they become for us favors and benefits because conformity to the will of God is a gain far superior to all temporal advantages.
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Make an effort to serve good bread and good meat and not to sell the better wine so as to serve what is inferior.
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In order to become soundly virtuous, it is advisable to make good practical resolutions concerning particular acts of the virtues and to be faithful in carrying the out afterwards. Without doing that, one is often virtuous only in one's imagination.
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If we want to find the manna hidden in our vocation, let us restrict and confine all our desires within it.
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[E]xcess in the practice of virtue is no less imperfect than the lack of it.
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. . . [T]hose persons who console you today may humiliate you tomorrow.
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We must love our neighbor as being made in the image of God and as an object of His love.
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O Monsieur de Sergis, how important a matter is submission of spirit to a superior!
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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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