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Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.

St Francis De Sales

One single act done with aridity of spirit is worth more than many done with feelings of devotion.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Devotion Feeling Oneself Spirit Worth
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
You learn to love by loving.
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Learning Love One Liner
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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Contradict Difficult Gentle Time
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
There is no better means of attainment to the spiritual life Than by continually beginning again.
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Beginning Better Spiritual
He who can preserve gentleness amid pains, and peace amid worry multitude of affairs, is almost perfect.
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Gentle Himself Pain Peace Perfection Preserve
Humility consists in not esteeming ourselves above other men, and in not seeking to be esteemed above them.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Esteem Humility Man Ourselves
Many who confess their venial sins out of custom and concern for order but without thought of amendment remain burdened with them for their whole life and thus lose many spiritual benefits and advantages.
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Advantage Confession Life Order Spiritual
Whatever happens, abide steadfast in a determination to cling simply to God.
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Determination God Simplicity
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.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Holy Life Live Ourselves Virtue Work
To lose ourselves in God is simply to give up our own will to Him. When a soul can truly say Lord I have no other will than Thine it is truly lost in God and united to Him.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Give Up God Lose Ourselves Soul True Unity
Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily.
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God Greatness Oneself Service Surround
Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
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Anxiety Doubt Meditation Peace
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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Be Yourself Perfection Self Love Try
We may be excused for not always being bright, but we are not excused for not being gracious, yielding and considerate.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Bright Grace Ourselves

Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.

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