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Half an hour’s meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.

St Francis De Sales

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
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Notice Persistence Progress True
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
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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Beginning Better Life Right Spiritual
For every great temptation there will be many small ones. Wolves and bears are more dangerous than flies, but we are bothered most by flies.
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Greatness Small Temptation Wolf
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
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Courage Imperfection Lose Yourself
Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great.
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Desire God Great Strong
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
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Gentle Reality Strength Strong
Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
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Anxiety Doubt Meditation Peace
Every Christian needs a half-hour of prayer each day, except when he is busy, then he needs an hour.
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Busy Exception Himself Need Prayer
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
By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.
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Beginning Eyes God Meditation Presence Soul
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
There is nothing small in the service of God.
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God Service Small Value
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
Every vocation becomes more agreeable when united with devotion.
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Agreement Devotion Unity
God takes pleasure to see you take your little steps; and like a good father who holds his child by the hand, He will accommodate His steps to yours and will be content to go no faster than you. Why do you worry?
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Accommodation Children Fast God Hands Happiness Hold Yourself

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