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All Faith Values Virtue Lord Our Lord Practice Accomplished Charity Matter People Saint Suffering Community Contrary Firm Humble Important Leadership Maxims Men

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“Remember, Monsieur that roses are not gathered except in the midst of thorns and that heroic acts of virtue are accomplished only in weakness.”

Remember Values Virtue Weakness Rose Accomplished Midst Heroic Thorns Heroic Acts

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Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)

“Perfection consists in a constant perseverance to acquire the virtues and become proficient in their practice, because on God's road, not to advance is to fall back since man never remains in the same condition.”

Men Values Fall Practice Virtue Conditions Perfection Remains Constant Perseverance Acquire Fall Back

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Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)

“. . . Our Lord humbles in order to raise up, and allows the suffering of interior and exterior afflictions in order to bring about peace. He often desires some things more than we do, but wants us to merit the grace of accomplishing them by several practices of virtue and to beg for this with many prayers.”

Want Desire Suffering Values Order Prayer Lord Practice Virtue Grace Raises Merit Affliction Interiors Want U Our Lord Exterior Raise Up

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Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)

“In order to become soundly virtuous, it is advisable to make good practical resolutions concerning particular acts of the virtues and to be faithful in carrying the out afterwards. Without doing that, one is often virtuous only in one's imagination.”

Values Order Imagination Virtue Particular Practicals Faithful Resolution Virtuous Being Faithful Advisable

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Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)

“It is true that zeal is the soul of the virtues, but most certainly, Monsieur, it must be according to knowledge, as Saint Paul says; that means: according to knowledge of experience. And because young people ordinarily do not possess this experiential knowledge, their zeal goes to excess, especially in those who have a natural asperity.”

People Mean Soul Young Values Natural Virtue Saint Excess Zeal Saint Paul

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Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)

“[E]xcess in the practice of virtue is no less imperfect than the lack of it.”

Values Practice Virtue Imperfect

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Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)

“[L]et us work to rid ourselves of our attacks of over-zealousness especially when it offends against respect, esteem, and charity.”

Values Charity Esteem

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Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)

“There is no act of charity that is not accompanied by justice or that permits us to do more than we reasonably can.”

Justice Charity Permit Acts Of Charity

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“. . . [I]n the kingdom of charity, one prefers to suffer some inconvenience rather than inconvenience the neighbor.”

Suffering Charity Neighbor Kingdoms Inconvenience

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Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)

“God's affairs are accomplished gradually and almost imperceptibly and His spirit is neither violent nor tempestuous.”

Spirit Faith Affair Violent Accomplished

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Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)

“He also always blesses humble beginnings much more than those accompanied by a lot of show.”

Shows Faith Humble Bless Humble Beginnings

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Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)

“I feel so strongly about the truths Our Lord taught us by word and example that I cannot help but see how everything done according to that teaching always succeeds perfectly well, while things done the opposite way have a quite different result.”

Way Feels Wells Different Done Helping Faith Results Lord Teaching Example Taught Succeed Opposites Our Lord Things Done Taught Us

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Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)

“. . . Practice teaching catechism and preaching. Missionaries must apply themselves to these tasks and although they do not accomplish them as successfully as others do, according to the opinion of men, it must be enough for them that they are doing the Will of God and perhaps producing more real fruit.”

Men Real Enough Faith Opinion Practice Teaching Tasks Fruit Accomplish Gods Will Preaching Catechism

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Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)

“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.”

Care Faith Trouble Endeavor Reign

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Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)

“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!”

Faith Weak Mercy Abuse Miserable Merciful Iniquity Forbearance Abomination Merciful God

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Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)

“His Divine Goodness asks that we never do good in any place to make ourselves look important but that we always consider Him directly, immediately, and without intermediary in all our actions.”

Looks Important Action Faith Asks Divine Goodness Our Actions

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Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)

“. . . God is pleased to communicate himself to the simple and humble and to use the smallest and lowliest to make them great and exalted. In a word, it is He Himself who has called and approved them and even inspired their humble manner of living.”

Use Faith Simple Inspired Communicate Humble Smallest Exalted Approved

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Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)

“Would that God, Monsieur, had rendered us worthy of spending our lives, as Our Lord did, for the salvation of those poor souls so far removed from all assistance.”

Soul Faith Poor Lord Our Lives Salvation Worthy Spending Assistance Our Lord

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Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)

“[I]t is the maxim of the saints that when a matter has been decided in the presence of God after many prayers and the seeking of advice, we must reject and consider as a temptation whatever is suggested to the contrary.”

Has Beens Matter Faith Prayer Advice Decided Saint Seeking Contrary Temptation Rejects Maxims Presence Of God

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Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)

“Our Lord and the saints accomplished more by suffering than by acting.”

Suffering Faith Acting Lord Saint Accomplished Our Lord

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Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)

“He is greatly honored by the time we take to weigh with mature deliberation matters having to do with his service, as are all those with which we deal.”

Matter Faith Deals Mature Honored Deliberation

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Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)

“[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?”

People Knows Doe Important Matter Reason Wisdom Causes Knowing Judgment Draws Passing Passings Conclusion Primaries Reason Why Not Knowing Passing Judgment

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Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)

“It is a maxim of ours to work in the service of the people, with the good pleasure of the pastors, and never to act contrary to their wishes. And, at the opening and closing of each mission, we get their blessing in a spirit of dependence.”

People Wisdom Past Spirit Wish Pleasure Blessing Missions Contrary Opening Dependence Pastor Maxims Closing

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Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)

“Without [firmness] I see the majority of Communities that are lax reach that state because of the excessive leniency of Superiors. So, be firm, Monsieur.”

States Community Leadership Majority Superiors Firm Firmness Lax Leniency

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Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)

“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.”

Remember Community Leadership Superiors Firm Cowardice Troublesome Downfall Purging Incorrigible

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Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)

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