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[P]resent misfortune presupposes good luck in the future.

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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It is not easy to find perfect men in whom there is nothing to criticize.
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Scorn both these evil suggestions and the wickedness of their author, who is the devil. Be very cheerful and humble yourself as much as you can. Ordinarily, God allows these things to happen to free us from some hidden pride and to engender in us holy humility.
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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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... 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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Who will excuse us before God for the loss of such a great number of people, who could be saved by the slight assistance we could give them?
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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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God has granted me today a very particular fondness for requesting of Him that same virtue of ever choosing the worst and that which is contrary to my own liking.
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So, do not dwell any longer on what you are, but consider Our Lord close by you and within you, ready to put His hand to the work as soon as you call upon Him for help, and you will see that all will go well.
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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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[A] sick mind cannot be cured by the sheer force of persuasion.
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We should spend as much time in thanking God for his benefits as we do in asking him for them.
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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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. . . 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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Just as stinginess is blameworthy, so is facility in paying more for things than they are worth...
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There is no act of charity that is not accompanied by justice or that permits us to do more than we reasonably can.
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Make an effort to serve good bread and good meat and not to sell the better wine so as to serve what is inferior.
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We cannot better assure our eternal happiness than by living and dying in the service of the poor, in the arms of Providence, and with genuine renouncement of ourselves in order to follow Jesus Christ.
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We must be firm but not rough in our guidance and avoid an insipid kind of meekness, which is ineffective.
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Remember, Monsieur, that Saint Augustine says that a person who does not obey the doctors is doing his best to kill himself.
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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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