...it is difficult to master one's feelings and be exact in everything in the midst of many affairs
Vincent de PaulIf we want to find the manna hidden in our vocation, let us restrict and confine all our desires within it.
Vincent de PaulOne beautiful diamond is worth more than a mountain of stones, and one virtuous act of acquiescence and submission is better than an abundance of good works done for others.
Vincent de Paul[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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