As for your insistence to be relieved of your position, you should reflect on how you began in it and how God has blessed you in it, and so (…) you should bear it with courage and when in difficulty, trust in Him. That is what I ask of you, until his divine goodness should arrange matters otherwise. [pp. 70-71]

(St Vincent de Paul. From Jacques Delarue, The Holiness of Vincent de Paul, Geoffrey Chapman Ltd, London 1960, 132 pp)