"... I am sure that you are the first to do what you teach them."
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"He also always blesses humble beginnings much more than those accompanied by a lot of show."
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"The vine-stock bears fruit as long as it is attached to its stem; apart from that, no."
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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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"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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"Scandal often does as much harm to the listeners as to those who devise it, even if it were to do no other harm than disturb the mind, as it does, and give rise to temptations to speak or write about it to others."
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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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"[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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"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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"[I]t is His good pleasure that we remain always in the holy joy of His love."
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"The wisest persons, surprised by some passion, often say things they later regret."
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"God often delays the conclusion of a holy endeavor so that those involved in it might merit its grace by the length of the work, their patience, and their prayers. This is why I beg you not to grow weary in yours. Although He may delay, He will reveal that it is pleasing to Him, if it is done, nevertheless, in a spirit of resignation regarding the outcome."
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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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"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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". . . [T]hose persons who console you today may humiliate you tomorrow."
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"Ultimately, Monsieur, we must go to God per infamiam et bonam famam [whether spoken of well or ill], and His Divine Goodness is merciful to us when it pleases Him to allow us to encounter blame and public contempt. I am sure you have borne patiently the embarrassment you experienced because of what has happened. If the glory of the world is nothing but smoke, the contrary is a solid good, when it is accepted in the right way. I hope that great good will come to us from this humiliation."
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"If you must be in a hurry, then let it be according to the old adage, and hasten slowly."
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"God has great plans for you, directed towards helping you do what Jesus Christ did when He was on earth. This requires you do resist temptation vigorously, with special confidence in the assistance of His Divine Goodness. Courage then, Monsieur. Be faithful to Him, and the Divine Goodness will be favorable to you."
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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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"Our Lord and the saints accomplished more by suffering than by acting."
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