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God will either shield you from suffering or give you unfailing strength to bear it.

St Francis De Sales

There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity.
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Artificial Desire Goodness Simplicity
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
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
We must fear God out of love, not love Him out of fear.
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Deep Fear God Love Religious
Be who you are and be that well.
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Be Yourself Self Love
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
A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity.
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Better Charity Silence Truth
There is nothing small in the service of God.
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God Service Small Value
Have Jesus always for your patron, His Cross for a mast on which you must spread your resolutions as a sail. Your anchor shall be a profound confidence in Him, and you shall sail prosperously.
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Confidence God Prosperity Resolution Yourself
Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily.
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God Greatness Oneself Service Surround
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
You learn to love by loving.
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Learning Love One Liner
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
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
Cook the truth in charity until it tastes sweet.
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Charity Cook Sweet Taste Truth
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

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