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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?

St Francis De Sales

He who can preserve gentleness amid pains, and peace amid worry multitude of affairs, is almost perfect.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Gentle Himself Pain Peace Perfection Preserve
I have made a pact with my tongue, not to speak when my heart is disturbed.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Disturb Heart Talk Tongue
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
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
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
Fear is a greater evil than evil itself.
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Evil Fear Greatness
In everything, love simplicity.
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Love One Liner Simplicity
The whole world is not worth one soul.
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Oneself Soul Value World Worth
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
Nothing appeases an enraged elephant so much as the sight of a little lamb.
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Angry Animal Sight
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
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
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
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.
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Learning Love Ourselves Study Talk Thinking
There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity.
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Artificial Desire Goodness Simplicity
Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne those already laid upon you well — it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Born Desire Insult Patience

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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