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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
Catholic Priest
Priest
Follow
Perhaps
Wisdom
Fear
Storm
Calm
Soon

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[I]n order to raise a soul to the highest perfection, He allows it to pass through dryness, brambles, and combats, causing it thereby to honor the times of weariness in the life of His Son, Our Lord, who suffered various kinds of anguish and abandonment.
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It is not light they need but strength, and strength permeates through the external balm of words and good example.
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If you say that a good reputation serves to benefit the neighbor more, I admit that. However, since it should be based on a good life, it is, therefore, preserved by the practice of virtue and not by human intrigue.
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I have never come away from you without reflecting that the Spirit of God and His holy workings reside in you.
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Since God is satisfied with our good will and honest efforts, let us also be satisfied with the outcome He gives to them, and our actions will never be without good results
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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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[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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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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There is a vast difference between an Apostolic life and the solitude of the Carthusians. The latter is truly very holy but is not suited to those whom God has called to the former, which is in itself more excellent.
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So, we pray well when we remain in this way in the presence of God, with no exertion of the understanding or will. Therefore, you will do well to listen to God in the urge you feel to return to us.
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[L]ove is inventive to infinity.
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Furthermore, the apostolic life does not exclude contemplation but encompasses it and profits by it to know better the eternal truths it must proclaim
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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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Foresight is good when it is subject to the latter, but it becomes excessive when we are in a hurry to avoid something we fear. We rely more on our own efforts than on those of his Providence, and we think we are doing a great deal by anticipating His orders by our own disorder, which causes us to rely on human prudence rather than on his Word.
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A man who behaves poorly in a Community will not do well in a parish.
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Since I am a great sinner, I cannot reject those who have been, provided they have good will.
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[A] sick mind cannot be cured by the sheer force of persuasion.
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Always be quite simple and sincere and ask God to grant me those two virtues.
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. . . in the final analysis, virtue is not found in extremes, but in prudence . . .
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. . . Our Lord humbles in order to raise up, and allows the suffering of interior and exterior afflictions in order to bring about peace. He often desires some things more than we do, but wants us to merit the grace of accomplishing them by several practices of virtue and to beg for this with many prayers.
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