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You should not open your mouth except to express gratitude for benefits you have received, and never to mention your discontent.
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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There are good, God-fearing persons who still fall into certain faults, and it is better to bear with them than to be hard on them.
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[P]resent misfortune presupposes good luck in the future.
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So, our vocation is to go, not just to one parish, not just to one diocese, but all over the world and do what? To set people's hearts on fire, to do what the Son of God did. He came to set the world on fire in order to inflame it with His love.
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Make an effort to serve good bread and good meat and not to sell the better wine so as to serve what is inferior.
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In this way, through experience they will be formed adequately, will be encouraged, and will be capable of rendering service to God.
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You know, Monsieur, that, although the contemplative life is more perfect than the active life, it is not, however, more so than one which embraces at the same time contemplation and action, as does yours, by God's grace.
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I cannot think of the results of your labors without shame at the little we do.
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He also always blesses humble beginnings much more than those accompanied by a lot of show.
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[M]ay you be more advanced in the school of solid virtue, which is practiced in an excellent way in the midst of suffering, and which keeps good servants of God in fear when they have nothing to suffer!
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Indeed, good is not good if one does not suffer in doing it.
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We are still tossed about by the disturbances of this life, which is like a stormy sea, where those who are not attached to J[esus] C[hrist] and the duties of their state, as was our dear departed, are shipwrecked.
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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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God always gives a great blessing to humble beginnings than to those that start with the chiming of bells.
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It is a ruse of the devil, by which he deceives good people, to induce them to do more than they are able, so that they end up not being able to do anything. The spirit of God urges one gently to do the good that can be done reasonably, so that it may be done perseveringly and for a long time.
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[L]ove is inventive to infinity.
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I would rather him to bear patiently with it than to put himself in danger of a greater evil.
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[R]est assured that, when you remain thus in the state in which obedience has placed you, the merit of this same obedience extends over everything you do, giving each action inestimable value, even when things do not turn out as you wish.
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It is a good sign when He burdens us with [crosses] and we carry them well, but woe to the person who runs away from them, for he will find such heavy ones that they will overwhelm him.
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An honorable man would never abandon his friend in time of need, especially if they were in a foreign country. Why? For fear of acting like a coward or of being boorish. I repeat, I admire the fact that, those persons have, through human respect, more courage than Christians and priests have, through charity or through their good intentions.
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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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