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A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity.

St Francis De Sales

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
Every vocation becomes more agreeable when united with devotion.
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Agreement Devotion Unity
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
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Gentle Reality Strength Strong
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.
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Give Up God Lose Ourselves Soul True Unity
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
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
Don’t get upset with your imperfections. Surrender to the Power of God’s Love, which is greater than our weakness.
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Greatness Imperfection Ourselves Power Upset Weakness
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
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
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Notice Persistence Progress True
God will either shield you from suffering or give you unfailing strength to bear it.
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Failure God Strength Suffering Yourself
Let God be the air in which your heart breathes at ease.
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Breathe Easy God Heart
Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.
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Beautiful Flower Garden Growth
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
Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.
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Fly Patience Walk Wings Yourself
The whole world is not worth one soul.
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Oneself Soul Value World Worth
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

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