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Fear not calm will follow the storm, and perhaps soon.

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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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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Noise makes no good, good makes no noise.
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Peace is never so complete that we may not have something to suffer. . . . Since it is impossible to please all of [those you serve], they offer you the occasion for practices which increase your merit in the measure that you make them meritorious by your patience.
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...Omit nothing which can advance his work, and not blame others for the delay.
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It is true that zeal is the soul of the virtues, but most certainly, Monsieur, it must be according to knowledge, as Saint Paul says that means: according to knowledge of experience. And because young people ordinarily do not possess this experiential knowledge, their zeal goes to excess, especially in those who have a natural asperity.
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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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Far from rejecting such a good man as you, He never even abandons a wicked man who hopes for His mercy.
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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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Just as stinginess is blameworthy, so is facility in paying more for things than they are worth...
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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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The vine-stock bears fruit as long as it is attached to its stem apart from that, no.
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