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Those who pray from the heart do not think about the prayer they are saying, but about the God to whom they pray.

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
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
For every great temptation there will be many small ones. Wolves and bears are more dangerous than flies, but we are bothered most by flies.
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Greatness Small Temptation Wolf
Faith is like a bright ray of sun light. It enables us to see God in all things as well as all things in God.
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Bright Faith God Light Sun
Humor is the foundation of reconciliation.
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Foundation Humor
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
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
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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Be Yourself Perfection Self Love Try
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
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
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
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
Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
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Anxiety Doubt Meditation Peace
Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.
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Fools Himself Hold Man Wisdom
Be who you are and be that well.
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Be Yourself Self Love
Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.
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Fly Patience Walk Wings Yourself
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
The greatest method of praying is to pray the Rosary.
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Greatness Prayer Religious
One single day of devotion is worth more than a thousand years of worldly life.
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Devotion Life World Worth
There is no better means of attainment to the spiritual life Than by continually beginning again.
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Beginning Better Spiritual
Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.
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Patience Yourself
It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.
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Bad Better Excellence Silence Talk
It is a great imperfection to complain unceasingly of little things.
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Complaint Greatness Imperfection
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 morning prepare your soul for a tranquil day.
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Day Morning Preparation Soul Tranquility
Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
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Beginning Break Friendship
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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