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Our Lord is pleased to deprive us of temporal goods may it please His Divine Goodness to give us spiritual ones!
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 cannot think of the results of your labors without shame at the little we do.
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[A] sick mind cannot be cured by the sheer force of persuasion.
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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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It is not light they need but strength, and strength permeates through the external balm of words and good example.
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Experience teaches that what is feasible at the beginning is sometimes harmful as things go on, or subject to troublesome inconveniences
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I am the only wretch who keeps on heaping new iniquities and abominations on myself. O Monsieur, how merciful God is to put up with me with so much patience and forbearance, and how weak and miserable I am to abuse his mercies so greatly!
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If you think something should be done, take the trouble to write to me about it, and together we will decide the time and manner of doing it.
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Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.
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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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Let us reflect that we shall always do God's Will and He will do ours when we carry out that of our Superiors.
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If you say that a good reputation serves to benefit the neighbor more, I admit that. However, since it should be based on a good life, it is, therefore, preserved by the practice of virtue and not by human intrigue.
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. . . . [P]ersons who love very much, easily take offense at trifles. No doubt your excessive affection for me makes you a little diffident about mine. But there is no harm done I hope you will soon be over this slight jealousy and be convinced that nothing can change the genuine affection Our Lord has given me for you
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We must love our neighbor as being made in the image of God and as an object of His love.
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Three can do more than ten when Our Lord puts His hand to things, and He always does so when He takes away the means of doing otherwise.
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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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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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