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...it is difficult to master one's feelings and be exact in everything in the midst of many affairs
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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That's what our Rules engage us to do, to help poor persons, our lords and masters.
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What you are saying is true of those who want everything to give way to them, nothing to oppose them, everything to go their way, people to obey them without comment or delay and, in a manner of speaking, to be adored.
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It will be easier for you to bring him around to where you want him more by gentleness and patience than by being too uncompromising.
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It will be most pleasing to O[ur] L[ord] if you husband your strength in order to serve Him better.
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[T]hese losses of the Church in the past hundred years give us reason to fear in the present misfortune that in another hundred years we may lose the Church entirely in Europe. So, keeping this fear in mind, blessed are those who cooperate in extending the Church elsewhere.
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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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Always be quite simple and sincere and ask God to grant me those two virtues.
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Perfection consists in a constant perseverance to acquire the virtues and become proficient in their practice, because on God's road, not to advance is to fall back since man never remains in the same condition.
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Without [firmness] I see the majority of Communities that are lax reach that state because of the excessive leniency of Superiors. So, be firm, Monsieur.
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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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[E]ven if the whole world should rise up to destroy us, nothing will happen except that God, in whom we have put our hope, will allow.
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In order to become soundly virtuous, it is advisable to make good practical resolutions concerning particular acts of the virtues and to be faithful in carrying the out afterwards. Without doing that, one is often virtuous only in one's imagination.
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In this way, through experience they will be formed adequately, will be encouraged, and will be capable of rendering service to God.
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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!
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Your soul will be blessed, Sister, if you bear patiently the troubles of mind and body His Providence sends you, or which come to you from within and without.
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You say you experience great difficulty in the mission. Alas! Monsieur, there is no lot in life where there is nothing to be endured.
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Is it not better to fail after asking advice than to risk acting on our own?
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