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Be acted upon rather than active. In this way, God will do through you alone what all men put together could not do without 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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Do not be afraid of undertaking too much of what you can do without coming and going but fear only the thought of doing more than you are doing and more than God is giving you the means to do.
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[L]et us believe that all is going along the best in the world when we take no satisfaction in it, provided we humble ourselves for this and redouble our confidence in God.
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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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Charity is the cement which binds Communities to God and persons to one another . . .
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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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Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.
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We should strive to keep our hearts open to the sufferings and wretchedness of other people, and pray continually that God may grant us that spirit of compassion which is truly the spirit of God.
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You say you experience great difficulty in the mission. Alas! Monsieur, there is no lot in life where there is nothing to be endured.
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[W]ork at ridding yourself of the esteem you have had up to now for the glitter and sparkle of virtue and the vain applause of the world, which Our Lord so assiduously avoided and so often recommends us to shun, and that you labor in earnest to acquire true and solid virtues.
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You must moderate yourself according to your strength. When you have done all that you can to see that no Christian is perverted, you must find your consolation in Our Lord, who could prevent this misfortune and who is not doing so.
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Always be quite simple and sincere and ask God to grant me those two virtues.
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I feel so strongly about the truths Our Lord taught us by word and example that I cannot help but see how everything done according to that teaching always succeeds perfectly well, while things done the opposite way have a quite different result.
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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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Just as stinginess is blameworthy, so is facility in paying more for things than they are worth...
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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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To this end, we should help and support one another and strive for peace and union among ourselves. This is the wine that cheers and strengthens travelers along the narrow path of Jesus Christ.
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. . . in the final analysis, virtue is not found in extremes, but in prudence . . .
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God uproots the vine that He Himself has not planted.
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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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