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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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When in Rome, you must do as the Romans do and accept the local customs, if they are not immoral.
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. . . [I]n the kingdom of charity, one prefers to suffer some inconvenience rather than inconvenience the neighbor.
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. . . [T]hose persons who console you today may humiliate you tomorrow.
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[N]or should you move so fast! The works of God do not proceed in that way they come about of themselves, and those He does not create soon perish.
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Things arrange themselves with time. Only God can have everything to His liking His servants should act as Our Lord did.
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Far from being a bad thing to seek advice, you must, on the contrary, do so when the matter is of any importance, or when we cannot come to a clear decision on our own.
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With whose imperfections will you bear, and what insult are you capable of enduring, if a thoughtless word from your own Superior is unbearable?
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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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A doctor who keeps a person from becoming ill deserves more merit than one who cures him.
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. . . [R]estlessness usually stems from pride and from being discontented with one's lot in life.
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Remember, Monsieur that roses are not gathered except in the midst of thorns and that heroic acts of virtue are accomplished only in weakness.
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It is not easy to find perfect men in whom there is nothing to criticize.
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[L]ove is inventive to infinity.
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His Divine Goodness asks that we never do good in any place to make ourselves look important but that we always consider Him directly, immediately, and without intermediary in all our actions.
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