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By giving yourself to God, You not only receive Himself in exchange, but eternal life as well.

St Francis De Sales

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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
Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.
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Anxiety Command Evil Exception God Greatness Prayer Worry Yourself
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
The Lord delights in every little step you take.
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God Happiness Joy Step
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
One single day of devotion is worth more than a thousand years of worldly life.
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Devotion Life World Worth
Be who you are and be that well.
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Be Yourself Self Love
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
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
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Courage Imperfection Lose Yourself
A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity.
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Better Charity Silence Truth
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
Humility consists in not esteeming ourselves above other men, and in not seeking to be esteemed above them.
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Esteem Humility Man Ourselves
Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
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Beginning Break Friendship
Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.
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Fools Himself Hold Man Wisdom
The whole world is not worth one soul.
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Oneself Soul Value World Worth
It matters little how one begins, provided that he be resolved to go on well, and to end well.
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Beginning End Himself Move On
There is no better means of attainment to the spiritual life Than by continually beginning again.
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Beginning Better Spiritual
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.
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Holy Life Live Ourselves Virtue Work
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
Whatever happens, abide steadfast in a determination to cling simply to God.
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Determination God Simplicity
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
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
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
Let God be the air in which your heart breathes at ease.
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Breathe Easy God Heart
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
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
Humor is the foundation of reconciliation.
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Foundation Humor

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