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Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.

St Francis De Sales

Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.
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Beautiful Flower Garden Growth
We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.
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Choice Evil Freedom Goodness Ourselves
A heart-memory is better than a mere head-memory. Better to carry away a little of the love of Christ in our souls, than if we were able to repeat every word of every sermon we ever heard.
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God Head Heart Memories Ourselves Repeat Word
There is no better means of attainment to the spiritual life Than by continually beginning again.
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Beginning Better Spiritual
We may be excused for not always being bright, but we are not excused for not being gracious, yielding and considerate.
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Bright Grace Ourselves
It is to those who have the most need of us that we ought to show our love more especially.
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Love Need Ourselves
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
To live according to the spirit is to love according to the spirit.
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Live Love Spirit
He who complains, sins.
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Complaint Himself Win
You learn to love by loving.
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Learning Love One Liner
We must fear God out of love, not love Him out of fear.
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Deep Fear God Love Religious
Pride dies 20 minutes after death.
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Death One Liner Pride
One rarely does well what one rarely does.
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Oneself Rare
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
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.
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Learning Love Ourselves Study Talk Thinking
The greatest method of praying is to pray the Rosary.
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Greatness Prayer Religious

Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.

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