People of good-will are always around

I was a country priest (poor priest!). My people were so good, so obedient in doing what I asked them that, when I told them that they should come to confession on the first Sundays of the month, they did not fail to do so. They came and they confessed, and I saw, from day to day, what progress their souls made. This gave me so much consolation, I was so happy because of it, that I said to myself: 'Oh, how lucky you are to have such a good flock.' And I added: 'I do not think the Pope himself as lucky as a priest whose people are of such good-will.' [p.16]

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