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. . . [T]hose persons who console you today may humiliate you tomorrow.

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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In the name of God, Monsieur, let us have greater confidence in Him than we do let us allow Him to steer our little bark if it is useful and pleasing to Him, He will save it from shipwreck.
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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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I thank God for having given the Company subjects who belong more to Him than to themselves, and who serve the neighbor at the risk of their lives! They are like unrefined gold, which becomes visible in fire and which would otherwise remain hidden under ordinary actions and sometimes under faults and failings.
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...a great good is worth being long desired.
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... bear with him as Our Lord bore with His disciples, who gave Him good reason to complain - at least, some of them did. Yet, He allowed them to remain in His company and tried to bring them around gently.
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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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Let us reflect that we shall always do God's Will and He will do ours when we carry out that of our Superiors.
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I have made to God the offering you made to me of your heart and have asked him to unite mine with yours in that of Our Lord.
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I feel so strongly about the truths Our Lord taught us by word and example that I cannot help but see how everything done according to that teaching always succeeds perfectly well, while things done the opposite way have a quite different result.
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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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[I]t is the maxim of the saints that when a matter has been decided in the presence of God after many prayers and the seeking of advice, we must reject and consider as a temptation whatever is suggested to the contrary.
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If after so much effort and prayer, the matter is not successful, it will be a clear sign that God does not will it.
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In a word, we are like the servants of the centurion in the Gospel with regard to the bishops, insofar as when they say to us: go, we are obliged to go if they say: come, we are obliged to come do that, and we are obliged to do it.
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If you think something should be done, take the trouble to write to me about it, and together we will decide the time and manner of doing it.
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With God's help, you will continue to succeed in your leadership and in your duties, because Our Lord's work is accomplished not so much by the multitude of workers as by the fidelity of the small number whom He calls.
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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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Just as stinginess is blameworthy, so is facility in paying more for things than they are worth...
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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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Put your trust in Him and following His example, always act humbly, graciously, and in good faith.
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[A] truly humble spirit humbles itself as much amid honors as amid insults, acting like the honeybee which makes its honey equally as well from the dew that falls on the wormwood as from that which falls on the rose.
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