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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!

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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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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A doctor who keeps a person from becoming ill deserves more merit than one who cures him.
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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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Just as stinginess is blameworthy, so is facility in paying more for things than they are worth...
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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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With God's help, you will continue to succeed in your leadership and in your duties, because Our Lord's work is accomplished not so much by the multitude of workers as by the fidelity of the small number whom He calls.
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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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So, our vocation is to go, not just to one parish, not just to one diocese, but all over the world and do what? To set people's hearts on fire, to do what the Son of God did. He came to set the world on fire in order to inflame it with His love.
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Providence must call us and we must follow it, if we are to go forward confidently.
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I hope that this man can be won over by your bearing charitably with him, advising him prudently, and praying for him. This is what I do for your family in general and for you in particular.
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The works of God are not accomplished when we wish them, but whenever it pleases Him.
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God's affairs are accomplished gradually and almost imperceptibly and His spirit is neither violent nor tempestuous.
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...Omit nothing which can advance his work, and not blame others for the delay.
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I see that you are not sure of what you should do. You must remain steadfast, Monsieur. It would be a great wrong for you to leave and an irreparable scandal to the town and the Company. If you were to abandon the house, I do not think people would ever be willing to welcome us back. Fear not calm will follow the storm, and perhaps soon.
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You know that you yourself are not always in the same state. If you are exact today, closely united to God, and a consolation to the whole house, tomorrow you will be out of sorts, indolent, and a source of affliction to others. Then you will need their support, as you have supported them.
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It is not easy to find perfect men in whom there is nothing to criticize.
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We are still tossed about by the disturbances of this life, which is like a stormy sea, where those who are not attached to J[esus] C[hrist] and the duties of their state, as was our dear departed, are shipwrecked.
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Cast from your heart the bitterness.
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Divine Providence is never wanting in things undertaken at Its command. Even though the whole world should rise up and destroy us, nothing could happen but what is pleasing to God. The less there is of man in affairs, the more there is of God.
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There is no act of charity that is not accompanied by justice or that permits us to do more than we reasonably can.
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