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One rarely does well what one rarely does.

St Francis De Sales

Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great.
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Desire God Great Strong
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
Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.
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Patience Yourself
Friendship requires great communication.
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Communication Friendship Greatness
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
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
You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar.
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Attraction Choice Yourself
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
Every Christian needs a half-hour of prayer each day, except when he is busy, then he needs an hour.
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Busy Exception Himself Need Prayer
The greatest method of praying is to pray the Rosary.
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Greatness Prayer Religious
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
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
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
Those who pray from the heart do not think about the prayer they are saying, but about the God to whom they pray.
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God Heart Prayer Yourself
Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
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Anxiety Doubt Meditation Peace
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
Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.
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Fly Patience Walk Wings Yourself
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
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Courage Imperfection Lose Yourself
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.
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Calm Hurry Quiet Spirit World Yourself
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
He who complains, sins.
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Complaint Himself Win
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
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Notice Persistence Progress True
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
Let God be the air in which your heart breathes at ease.
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Breathe Easy God Heart
One rarely does well what one rarely does.
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Oneself Rare
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 vocation becomes more agreeable when united with devotion.
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Agreement Devotion Unity

One rarely does well what one rarely does.

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