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Be who you are and do that well.

St Francis De Sales

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
A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity.
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Better Charity Silence Truth
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
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
Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
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Beginning Break Friendship
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
Take care of your health, that it may serve you to serve God.
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Care God Health Service
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.
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Born Desire Insult Patience
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
Be who you are and be that well.
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Be Yourself Self Love
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
Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.
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Beautiful Flower Garden Growth
Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great.
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Desire God Great Strong
There is no better means of attainment to the spiritual life Than by continually beginning again.
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Beginning Better Spiritual
Let us think only of spending the present day well. Then when tomorrow shall have come, it will be called today, and then we will think about it.
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Come Future Present Thinking
Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
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Patience Yourself
There is nothing small in the service of God.
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God Service Small Value
He who can preserve gentleness amid pains, and peace amid worry multitude of affairs, is almost perfect.
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Gentle Himself Pain Peace Perfection Preserve
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
There is nothing as strong as tenderness, And nothing as tender as true strength.
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Soft Strength Strong True
There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity.
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Artificial Desire Goodness Simplicity
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
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
Be who you are and do that well.
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Be Yourself Original Self Love
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
Every morning prepare your soul for a tranquil day.
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Day Morning Preparation Soul Tranquility
Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.
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Fly Patience Walk Wings Yourself

Be who you are and do that well.

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