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

St Francis De Sales

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
Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.
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Fly Patience Walk Wings Yourself
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
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
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
Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily.
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God Greatness Oneself Service Surround
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
Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.
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Beautiful Flower Garden Growth
The greatest method of praying is to pray the Rosary.
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Greatness Prayer Religious
Friendship requires great communication.
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Communication Friendship Greatness
All the science of the Saints is included in these two things: To do, and to suffer. And whoever had done these two things best, has made himself most saintly.
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Himself Science Suffering
Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
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Patience Yourself
What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.
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Love Need Ocean Patience Understand
Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean do not be disheartened by your imperfections, but always rise up with fresh courage.
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Courage Heart Imperfection Patience Rise
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
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 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
To live according to the spirit is to love according to the spirit.
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Live Love Spirit
One single day of devotion is worth more than a thousand years of worldly life.
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Devotion Life World Worth
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
Every vocation becomes more agreeable when united with devotion.
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Agreement Devotion Unity
Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
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Anxiety Doubt Meditation Peace
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
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
Be who you are and do that well.
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Be Yourself Original Self Love
In everything, love simplicity.
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Love One Liner Simplicity
A heart-memory is better than a mere head-memory. Better to carry away a little of the love of Christ in our souls, than if we were able to repeat every word of every sermon we ever heard.
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God Head Heart Memories Ourselves Repeat Word

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