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St Francis De Sales

Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great.
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Desire God Great Strong
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
He who complains, sins.
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Complaint Himself Win
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
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Gentle Reality Strength Strong
Whatever happens, abide steadfast in a determination to cling simply to God.
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Determination God Simplicity
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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Bright Faith God Light Sun
You learn to love by loving.
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Learning Love One Liner
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
You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar.
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Attraction Choice Yourself
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
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
There is no better means of attainment to the spiritual life Than by continually beginning again.
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Beginning Better Spiritual
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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Contradict Difficult Gentle Time
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
Be who you are and be that well.
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Be Yourself Self Love
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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Be Yourself Perfection Self Love Try

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