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Oh! how happy the man of means who uses his wealth and his life for the greater glory of God, from whom he has received them!
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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Never betray His principles for any reason whatsoever, and take great care not to spoil God's affairs by too much haste in them.
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If, in order to succeed in an enterprise, I were obliged to choose between fifty deer commanded by a lion, and fifty lions commanded by a deer, I should consider myself more certain of success with the first group than with the second.
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We should take as a maxim never to be surprised at current difficulties, no more than at a passing breeze, because with a little patience we shall see them disappear. Time changes everything.
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... bear with him as Our Lord bore with His disciples, who gave Him good reason to complain - at least, some of them did. Yet, He allowed them to remain in His company and tried to bring them around gently.
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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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Our Lord and the saints accomplished more by suffering than by acting.
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[L]ove is inventive to infinity.
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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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A doctor who keeps a person from becoming ill deserves more merit than one who cures him.
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...a great good is worth being long desired.
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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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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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There is nothing good that does not meet with opposition, and it should not be valued any less because it encounters objections.
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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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Nature makes trees put down deep roots before having them bear fruit, and even this is done gradually.
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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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And what are we doing if we are not doing God's Will?
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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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Noise makes no good, good makes no noise.
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He also always blesses humble beginnings much more than those accompanied by a lot of show.
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