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If you do not see any good in these persons, then say nothing, but if you do see some, speak about it to honor God in them because all good proceeds from Him.

Vincent de Paul

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Vincent de Paul
Age: 79 †
Born: 1581
Born: April 24
Died: 1660
Died: September 27
Catholic Priest
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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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...Seek counsel of very pious, disinterested persons, and follow the call of O[ur] L[ord] and the advice of those persons.
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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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God always gives a great blessing to humble beginnings than to those that start with the chiming of bells.
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Fear not calm will follow the storm, and perhaps soon.
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Is it not better to fail after asking advice than to risk acting on our own?
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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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The children of our Lord walk gladly in his ways they have confidence in him, and so when they fall, they rise again and if, instead of stopping to grumble about the stone they have tripped over, they humble themselves at their fall, this helps them to advance with great strides in his love.
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Scandal often does as much harm to the listeners as to those who devise it, even if it were to do no other harm than disturb the mind, as it does, and give rise to temptations to speak or write about it to others.
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[L]ove is inventive to infinity.
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In a word, we owe obedience to the bishops in all things pertaining to our work in the missions, with ordinands, etc., but the spiritual and internal direction belongs to the Superior General.
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Would that God, Monsieur, had rendered us worthy of spending our lives, as Our Lord did, for the salvation of those poor souls so far removed from all assistance.
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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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Man's condition is never the same he is humbled, then exalted sometimes at peace, sometimes persecuted enlightened today and plunged into darkness tomorrow. What is to be done? As I said, let us be prepared for whatever may happen.
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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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If the Company takes my advice, it will always be preserved through this maxim, for if we are good, we will not lack any, and if we are not, we already have too many houses anyway, and can hardly fill the few we have.
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There is a vast difference between an Apostolic life and the solitude of the Carthusians. The latter is truly very holy but is not suited to those whom God has called to the former, which is in itself more excellent.
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You should not open your mouth except to express gratitude for benefits you have received, and never to mention your discontent.
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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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All beginnings are somewhat strange but we must have patience, and little by little, we shall find things, which at first were obscure, becoming clearer.
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