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Take care of your health, that it may serve you to serve God.

St Francis De Sales

God will either shield you from suffering or give you unfailing strength to bear it.
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Failure God Strength Suffering Yourself
You learn to love by loving.
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Learning Love One Liner
Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
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Patience Yourself
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
He who can preserve gentleness amid pains, and peace amid worry multitude of affairs, is almost perfect.
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Gentle Himself Pain Peace Perfection Preserve
If you would fall into any extreme, let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists rigor, and yields to softness.
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Construction Fall Gentle Human Mindset Resistance Side Soft
While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.
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Busy Greatness Myself Small Value
During the night we must wait for the light.
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Light Night Wait
He who complains, sins.
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Complaint Himself Win
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
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
Make yourself familiar with the angels and behold them frequently in spirit; for without being seen, they are present with you.
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Angel Present See Yourself
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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Give Up God Lose Ourselves Soul True Unity
Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.
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Patience Yourself
We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.
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Himself Person Presence Value Work
One rarely does well what one rarely does.
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Oneself Rare

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