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Is it not better to fail after asking advice than to risk acting on our own?

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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. . . 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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Remember the maxim of the Romans which states that by union and counsel we can achieve anything.
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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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God's affairs are accomplished gradually and almost imperceptibly and His spirit is neither violent nor tempestuous.
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[W]isdom consists in following Providence step by step. And you can be sure of the truth of a maxim which seems paradoxical, namely, that he who is hasty falls back in the interests of God.
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. . . in the final analysis, virtue is not found in extremes, but in prudence . . .
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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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You must moderate yourself according to your strength. When you have done all that you can to see that no Christian is perverted, you must find your consolation in Our Lord, who could prevent this misfortune and who is not doing so.
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I thank God that you know the art of tearing yourself apart - I mean the way to humble yourself truly by recognizing and realizing your faults. You are right in believing yourself to be as you describe and to be most unsuitable for any kind of duty it is on this foundation that Our Lord will base the execution of His plans for you.
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Peace is worth far more than anything they might take from you.
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O Monsieur de Sergis, how important a matter is submission of spirit to a superior!
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Nevertheless, when one is ill, one should be submissive to the doctor and obey him.
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Let us allow God to act He brings things to completion when we least expect it.
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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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We must be firm but not rough in our guidance and avoid an insipid kind of meekness, which is ineffective. We will learn from Our Lord how our meekness should always be accompanied by humility and grace so as to attract hearts to Him and not cause anyone to turn away from Him.
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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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The kingdom of God is peace in the Holy Spirit He will reign in you if your heart is at peace. So, be at peace, Mademoiselle, and you will honor in a sovereign way the God of peace and love.
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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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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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...a great good is worth being long desired.
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