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• Remember the maxim of the Romans which states that by union and counsel we can achieve anything.

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  Wisdom, Unions, Remember

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• That's what our Rules engage us to do, to help poor persons, our lords and masters.

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  Charity, Helping, Lord

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

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  Wisdom, May, Today

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”

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• It is not easy to find perfect men in whom there is nothing to criticize.

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  Wisdom, Men, Perfect

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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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  Faith, Men, World

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• [I]t is His good pleasure that we remain always in the holy joy of His love.

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  Joy, Charity, His Love

  Saint Vincent de Paul (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: I. Correspondence. v. 1. 1607-1639”, BNA Books (Bureau of National Affairs)

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• Naturally, everyone loves his freedom, but we must beware of this as of a broad road that leads to perdition.

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  Wisdom, One Love, Broads

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents”

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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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  Wisdom, Lying, Law

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”

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• ...a great good is worth being long desired.

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  Wisdom, Long

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”

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• The wisest persons, surprised by some passion, often say things they later regret.

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  Wisdom, Regret, Passion

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents”

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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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  Faith, Heart, Offering

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents”

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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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  Faith, Spirit, Holy

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1992). “Correspondence, conferences, documents”, New City Pr

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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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  Faith, Superiors, God's Will

  Vincent De Paul (1990). “Correspondence Conference Documents”, New City Pr

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• Your soul will be blessed, Sister, if you bear patiently the troubles of mind and body His Providence sends you, or which come to you from within and without.

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  Faith, Blessed, Soul

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”

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• . . . [R]estlessness usually stems from pride and from being discontented with one's lot in life.

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  Faith, Pride, Stem

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”

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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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  Kind, Guidance, Meekness

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• I beg Our Lord, Monsieur, that we may be able to die to ourselves in order to rise with Him, that he may be the joy of your heart, the end and soul of your actions, and your glory in heaven. This will come to pass if, from now on, we humble ourselves as He humbled Himself, if we renounce our own satisfaction to follow Him by carrying our little crosses, and if we give our lives willingly, as He gave His, for our neighbor whom He loves so much and whom He wants us to love as ourselves.

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  Faith, Heart, Humble

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1992). “Correspondence, conferences, documents”, New City Pr

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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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  Wisdom, Knowing, People

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”

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• Remember, Monsieur, that the downfall of most Communities comes from the cowardice of Superiors in not holding firm and in not purging them of the troublesome and incorrigible.

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  Leadership, Community, Remember

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”

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• It is not light they need but strength, and strength permeates through the external balm of words and good example.

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  Wisdom, Light, Example

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1993). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”, New City Pr

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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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  Faith, Son, Order

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• It seems to me that the best way will be the one that is most gentle and forbearing, which is more in conformity with the Spirit of Our Lord and more apt to win hearts.

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  Heart, Winning, Way

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1992). “Correspondence, conferences, documents”, New City Pr

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• The children of our Lord walk gladly in his ways; they have confidence in him, and so when they fall, they rise again; and if, instead of stopping to grumble about the stone they have tripped over, they humble themselves at their fall, this helps them to advance with great strides in his love.

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  Faith, Children, Fall

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• Use gentle methods to get whatever good you can from priests and monks who are slaves, as well as from merchants and captives. Resort to severe measures only in extreme cases, for fear lest the hardship they are already enduring in their state of captivity, joined to the strictness you might want to exercise in virtue of your authority, drive them to despair. . . . It is not light they need, but strength, and strength permeates through the external balm of words and good example.

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  Wisdom, Exercise, Light

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”

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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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  Faith, Men, Good Man

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