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One single act done with aridity of spirit is worth more than many done with feelings of devotion.

St Francis De Sales

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
Nothing appeases an enraged elephant so much as the sight of a little lamb.
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Angry Animal Sight
There is no better means of attainment to the spiritual life Than by continually beginning again.
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Beginning Better Spiritual
Take care of your health, that it may serve you to serve God.
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Care God Health Service
Those who pray from the heart do not think about the prayer they are saying, but about the God to whom they pray.
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God Heart Prayer Yourself
Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
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Anxiety Doubt Meditation Peace
Never be hurried in anything. Do all things calmly and in a spirit of repose. Do not lose your inward peace even if everything seems to be going wrong. What is anything in life compared to peace of soul?
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Calm Compare Hurry Lose Peace Soul Spirit
Let God be the air in which your heart breathes at ease.
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Breathe Easy God Heart
One rarely does well what one rarely does.
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Oneself Rare
Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.
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Fly Patience Walk Wings Yourself
We may be excused for not always being bright, but we are not excused for not being gracious, yielding and considerate.
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Bright Grace Ourselves
You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar.
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Attraction Choice Yourself
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
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 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

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