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What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.

St Francis De Sales

Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.
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Anxiety Command Evil Exception God Greatness Prayer Worry Yourself
Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
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Patience Yourself
Make yourself familiar with the angels and behold them frequently in spirit; for without being seen, they are present with you.
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Angel Present See Yourself
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
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Gentle Reality Strength Strong
God will either shield you from suffering or give you unfailing strength to bear it.
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Failure God Strength Suffering Yourself
Never be hurried in anything. Do all things calmly and in a spirit of repose. Do not lose your inward peace even if everything seems to be going wrong. What is anything in life compared to peace of soul?
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Calm Compare Hurry Lose Peace Soul Spirit
Every moment comes to us pregnant with a command from God, only to pass on and plunge into eternity, there to remain forever what we have made of it.
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Command Forever God Moments Pregnant
Be not miserable about what may happen tomorrow. The same everlasting Father, who cares for you today, will care for you tomorrow.
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Care Father God Misery Yourself
It is a great imperfection to complain unceasingly of little things.
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Complaint Greatness Imperfection
All of us can attain to Christian virtue and holiness, no matter in what condition of life we live and no matter what our life work may be.
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Holy Life Live Ourselves Virtue Work
Be who you are and do that well.
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Be Yourself Original Self Love
Strive to see God in all things without exception. Do not smother yourself…If you start smothering yourself with a host of cares and longings and wishes … you will be disabling yourself from serving God with all your heart.
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Care God Heart See Start Strive Yourself
Let the enemy rage at the gate; let him knock, pound, scream, howl; let him do his worst. We know for certain that he cannot enter our soul except by the door of our consent.
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Angry Enemy Exception Ourselves Scream Soul
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
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Courage Imperfection Lose Yourself
One rarely does well what one rarely does.
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Oneself Rare
God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.
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God Himself Person Present Work

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