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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
Catholic Priest
Priest
Wisdom
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Gratitude
Benefits
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Discontent
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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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We must be firm but not rough in our guidance and avoid an insipid kind of meekness, which is ineffective.
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I am the only wretch who keeps on heaping new iniquities and abominations on myself. O Monsieur, how merciful God is to put up with me with so much patience and forbearance, and how weak and miserable I am to abuse his mercies so greatly!
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. . . [A]s a rule, the most learned persons do not produce the greatest results. We see that only too often.
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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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[M]ost people offend God by passing judgment on the things others do, especially important people, not knowing the reasons why they are doing what they do for when one does not know the primary cause of some matter, what conclusions can he draw from it?
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Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.
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All of you desire to belong entirely to God, and God also wants all of you to belong to Him
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You know that you yourself are not always in the same state. If you are exact today, closely united to God, and a consolation to the whole house, tomorrow you will be out of sorts, indolent, and a source of affliction to others. Then you will need their support, as you have supported them.
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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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Naturally, everyone is disheartened by sharp reprimands, and by the most amiable corrections as well, if they are frequent, immoderate, or given inappropriately.
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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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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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Just as stinginess is blameworthy, so is facility in paying more for things than they are worth...
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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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Let us do our duty well let us go straight to God let us work to become very humble, very patient, very mortified, and very charitable.
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People are made in such a way that even the holiest ones are liable to offend one another.
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[W]ork at ridding yourself of the esteem you have had up to now for the glitter and sparkle of virtue and the vain applause of the world, which Our Lord so assiduously avoided and so often recommends us to shun, and that you labor in earnest to acquire true and solid virtues.
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Since you know the means of getting better, in the name of God, make use of them. Do not take on anything beyond your strength, do not be anxious, do not take things too much to heart, go gently, do not work too long or too hard.
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We cannot better assure our eternal happiness than by living and dying in the service of the poor, in the arms of Providence, and with genuine renouncement of ourselves in order to follow Jesus Christ.
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