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Cast from your heart the bitterness.

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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Bitterness
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Let us do our duty well let us go straight to God let us work to become very humble, very patient, very mortified, and very charitable.
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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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. . . in the final analysis, virtue is not found in extremes, but in prudence . . .
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The most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is humility. For, as he does not know at all how to employ it, neither does he know how to defend himself from it.
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Fear not calm will follow the storm, and perhaps soon.
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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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Is it not better to fail after asking advice than to risk acting on our own?
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Always be quite simple and sincere and ask God to grant me those two virtues.
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