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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

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 sure that you are the first to do what you teach them.
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I have never made any distinction between those who have taken vows and those who have not some should not be overburdened in order to spare others.
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If there is any danger in the present weather, in the name of God, Monsieur, wait until spring
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He is greatly honored by the time we take to weigh with mature deliberation matters having to do with his service, as are all those with which we deal.
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May God be pleased to make it known to you, and fill you increasingly with His Spirit, so that through you it may be poured into the souls you guide, and your own soul may be more greatly sanctified!
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O Monsieur de Sergis, how important a matter is submission of spirit to a superior!
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[T]hese losses of the Church in the past hundred years give us reason to fear in the present misfortune that in another hundred years we may lose the Church entirely in Europe. So, keeping this fear in mind, blessed are those who cooperate in extending the Church elsewhere.
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I would rather him to bear patiently with it than to put himself in danger of a greater evil.
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The angels would become incarnate if they could, so that they might come to earth to imitate the example and virtues of the Son of God!
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Scorn both these evil suggestions and the wickedness of their author, who is the devil. Be very cheerful and humble yourself as much as you can. Ordinarily, God allows these things to happen to free us from some hidden pride and to engender in us holy humility.
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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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Naturally, everyone loves his freedom, but we must beware of this as of a broad road that leads to perdition.
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God always gives a great blessing to humble beginnings than to those that start with the chiming of bells.
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. . . It is God's plan that those who are to help others spiritually fall into the temptations of mind and body by which others can be tormented. . . . Scorn both these evil suggestions and the wickedness of their author, who is the devil.
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If your men grow weary of the work or balk at obedience, you must bear with them. Get what you can gently from them. True, it is good to be firm in attaining your goal, but use appropriate, attractive, and agreeable means.
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