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Indeed, good is not good if one does not suffer in doing it.

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 order to become soundly virtuous, it is advisable to make good practical resolutions concerning particular acts of the virtues and to be faithful in carrying the out afterwards. Without doing that, one is often virtuous only in one's imagination.
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. . . . [P]ersons who love very much, easily take offense at trifles. No doubt your excessive affection for me makes you a little diffident about mine. But there is no harm done I hope you will soon be over this slight jealousy and be convinced that nothing can change the genuine affection Our Lord has given me for you
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I cannot think of the results of your labors without shame at the little we do.
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Our Lord is pleased to deprive us of temporal goods may it please His Divine Goodness to give us spiritual ones!
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...it is difficult to master one's feelings and be exact in everything in the midst of many affairs
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Always be quite simple and sincere and ask God to grant me those two virtues.
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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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Man's condition is never the same he is humbled, then exalted sometimes at peace, sometimes persecuted enlightened today and plunged into darkness tomorrow. What is to be done? As I said, let us be prepared for whatever may happen.
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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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. . . [R]estlessness usually stems from pride and from being discontented with one's lot in life.
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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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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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The wisest persons, surprised by some passion, often say things they later regret.
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Far from being a bad thing to seek advice, you must, on the contrary, do so when the matter is of any importance, or when we cannot come to a clear decision on our own.
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So, do not dwell any longer on what you are, but consider Our Lord close by you and within you, ready to put His hand to the work as soon as you call upon Him for help, and you will see that all will go well.
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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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Divine Providence is never wanting in things undertaken at Its command. Even though the whole world should rise up and destroy us, nothing could happen but what is pleasing to God. The less there is of man in affairs, the more there is of God.
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Charity is the cement which binds Communities to God and persons to one another . . .
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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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[E]xcess in the practice of virtue is no less imperfect than the lack of it.
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