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One single day of devotion is worth more than a thousand years of worldly life.

St Francis De Sales

Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.
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Fools Himself Hold Man Wisdom
Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
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Beginning Break Friendship
Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great.
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Desire God Great Strong
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
Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily.
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God Greatness Oneself Service Surround
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
While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.
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Busy Greatness Myself Small Value
Make yourself familiar with the angels and behold them frequently in spirit; for without being seen, they are present with you.
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Angel Present See Yourself
Nothing appeases an enraged elephant so much as the sight of a little lamb.
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Angry Animal Sight
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
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.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Give Up God Lose Ourselves Soul True Unity
Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
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Anxiety Doubt Meditation Peace
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
God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.
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God Himself Person Present Work
All of us can attain to Christian virtue and holiness, no matter in what condition of life we live and no matter what our life work may be.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Holy Life Live Ourselves Virtue Work
There is no better means of attainment to the spiritual life Than by continually beginning again.
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Beginning Better Spiritual

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