Pride dies 20 minutes after death.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESIf, when stung by slander or ill-nature, we wax proud and swell with anger, it is a proof that our gentleness and humility are unreal, and mere artificial show.
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During the night we must wait for the light.
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Fear is a greater evil than evil itself.
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Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.
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Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
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God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.
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Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
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What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.
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Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
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If, when stung by slander or ill-nature, we wax proud and swell with anger, it is a proof that our gentleness and humility are unreal, and mere artificial show.
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To live according to the spirit is to love according to the spirit.
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He who can preserve gentleness amid pains, and peace amid worry multitude of affairs, is almost perfect.
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The greatest method of praying is to pray the Rosary.
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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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Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.
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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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It matters little how one begins, provided that he be resolved to go on well, and to end well.
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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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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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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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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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We must fear God out of love, not love Him out of fear.
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Nothing appeases an enraged elephant so much as the sight of a little lamb.
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There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity.
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Take care of your health, that it may serve you to serve God.
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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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He who complains, sins.
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