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To live according to the spirit is to love according to the spirit.

St Francis De Sales

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
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
Be who you are and do that well.
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Be Yourself Original Self Love
Humility consists in not esteeming ourselves above other men, and in not seeking to be esteemed above them.
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Esteem Humility Man Ourselves
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
What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.
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Love Need Ocean Patience Understand
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
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
We must fear God out of love, not love Him out of fear.
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Deep Fear God Love Religious
It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.
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Bad Better Excellence Silence Talk
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
You learn to love by loving.
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Learning Love One Liner
Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily.
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God Greatness Oneself Service Surround
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
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
By giving yourself to God, You not only receive Himself in exchange, but eternal life as well.
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Forever God Life Yourself

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