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Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great.

St Francis De Sales

Don’t get upset with your imperfections. Surrender to the Power of God’s Love, which is greater than our weakness.
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Greatness Imperfection Ourselves Power Upset Weakness
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
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
God will either shield you from suffering or give you unfailing strength to bear it.
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Failure God Strength Suffering Yourself
Be not miserable about what may happen tomorrow. The same everlasting Father, who cares for you today, will care for you tomorrow.
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Care Father God Misery 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
Every moment comes to us pregnant with a command from God, only to pass on and plunge into eternity, there to remain forever what we have made of it.
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Command Forever God Moments Pregnant
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
God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.
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God Himself Person Present Work
If, when stung by slander or ill-nature, we wax proud and swell with anger, it is a proof that our gentleness and humility are unreal, and mere artificial show.
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Angry Artificial Gentle Glow Humility Nature Proud Reality
One single act done with aridity of spirit is worth more than many done with feelings of devotion.
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Devotion Feeling Oneself Spirit Worth
Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.
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Fools Himself Hold Man Wisdom
Fear is a greater evil than evil itself.
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Evil Fear Greatness
To live according to the spirit is to love according to the spirit.
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Live Love Spirit
It matters little how one begins, provided that he be resolved to go on well, and to end well.
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Beginning End Himself Move On
Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
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Beginning Break Friendship

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