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O Monsieur de Sergis, how important a matter is submission of spirit to a superior!
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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Be acted upon rather than active. In this way, God will do through you alone what all men put together could not do without Him.
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Laws must never be made compatible with crimes, no more than lying should be in harmony with the truth.
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Is it not better to fail after asking advice than to risk acting on our own?
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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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Put your trust in Him and following His example, always act humbly, graciously, and in good faith.
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Peace is worth more than all worldly possessions in addition, God rewards it even in this life.
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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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[Do not] overburden yourself with rules of devotion, but persist in doing well those you have, your daily actions, your work in a word, let everything revolve around doing well what you are doing.
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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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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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[T]hese losses of the Church in the past hundred years give us reason to fear in the present misfortune that in another hundred years we may lose the Church entirely in Europe. So, keeping this fear in mind, blessed are those who cooperate in extending the Church elsewhere.
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God has granted me today a very particular fondness for requesting of Him that same virtue of ever choosing the worst and that which is contrary to my own liking.
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(1) Be convinced that exactness in rising is one of the most important practices in the Company and that as the day begins so the rest of the day continues (2) give yourselves sincerely to God on going to bed in the evening, asking Him for the strength to overcome yourselves in the morning and to obey His voice without delay.
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If, in order to succeed in an enterprise, I were obliged to choose between fifty deer commanded by a lion, and fifty lions commanded by a deer, I should consider myself more certain of success with the first group than with the second.
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We must endeavor to have God reign sovereignly in us, and then in others. The trouble with me is that I take more care to have Him reign in others than in myself.
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[E]xcess in the practice of virtue is no less imperfect than the lack of it.
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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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... I am sure that you are the first to do what you teach them.
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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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. . . [Y]ou must understand that we have always considered the writing of books a hindrance to our work, and that for this reason the custom was not to be introduced into the Company. However, since no rule, however general, does not have some exception, we shall see whether it is advisable to have yours printed.
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