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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

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It is right that you should begin again every day. There is no better way to complete the spiritual life than to be ever beginning it over again.
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Beginning Better Life Right Spiritual
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
Work hard every day at increasing your purity of heart, which consists in appraising things and weighing them in the balance of God’s will.
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Balance God Hard Heart Purity Willing Work
Truly it is a blessed thing to love on earth as we hope to love in Heaven, and to begin that friendship here which is to endure for ever there.
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Beginning Earth Endurance Heaven Hope Love True
If, when stung by slander or ill-nature, we wax proud and swell with anger, it is a proof that our gentleness and humility are unreal, and mere artificial show.
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Angry Artificial Gentle Glow Humility Nature Proud Reality
He who complains, sins.
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Complaint Himself Win
Take care of your health, that it may serve you to serve God.
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Care God Health Service
One single act done with aridity of spirit is worth more than many done with feelings of devotion.
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Devotion Feeling Oneself Spirit Worth
The whole world is not worth one soul.
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Oneself Soul Value World Worth
Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
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Beginning Break Friendship
Let us think only of spending the present day well. Then when tomorrow shall have come, it will be called today, and then we will think about it.
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Come Future Present Thinking
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
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
Be who you are and be that well.
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Be Yourself Self Love
If you would fall into any extreme, let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists rigor, and yields to softness.
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Construction Fall Gentle Human Mindset Resistance Side Soft
I have made a pact with my tongue, not to speak when my heart is disturbed.
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Disturb Heart Talk Tongue
God takes pleasure to see you take your little steps; and like a good father who holds his child by the hand, He will accommodate His steps to yours and will be content to go no faster than you. Why do you worry?
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Accommodation Children Fast God Hands Happiness Hold Yourself
Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.
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Patience Yourself
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
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Courage Imperfection Lose Yourself
Humor is the foundation of reconciliation.
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Foundation Humor
A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity.
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Better Charity Silence Truth
Humility consists in not esteeming ourselves above other men, and in not seeking to be esteemed above them.
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Esteem Humility Man Ourselves
To live according to the spirit is to love according to the spirit.
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Live Love Spirit
Half an hour’s meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.
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Busy Day Exception Meditation Need
Every morning prepare your soul for a tranquil day.
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Day Morning Preparation Soul Tranquility
We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.
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Himself Person Presence Value Work
It matters little how one begins, provided that he be resolved to go on well, and to end well.
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Beginning End Himself Move On

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