If you grant asylum to so many refugees, your house may be sacked sooner by the soldiers; I … - Vincent de Paul

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It's not about if I can! I'm doing this because I want to. . . If I have to die fighting for it, then I die.

Vincent de Paul

If you grant asylum to so many refugees, your house may be sacked sooner by the soldiers; I see that clearly. The question is, however, whether, because of this danger, you should refuse to practice such a beautiful virtue as charity.

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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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Indeed, good is not good if one does not suffer in doing it.

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Rarely is any good done without difficulty; the devil is too subtle and the world too corrupt not to attempt to nip such a good work in the bud

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God always gives a great blessing to humble beginnings than to those that start with the chiming of bells.

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