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We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.

St Francis De Sales

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
Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great.
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Desire God Great Strong
Friendship requires great communication.
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Communication Friendship Greatness
Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
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Beginning Break Friendship
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
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Gentle Reality Strength Strong
The greatest method of praying is to pray the Rosary.
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Greatness Prayer Religious
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.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Care God Heart See Start Strive Yourself
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
The Lord delights in every little step you take.
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God Happiness Joy Step
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
Have Jesus always for your patron, His Cross for a mast on which you must spread your resolutions as a sail. Your anchor shall be a profound confidence in Him, and you shall sail prosperously.
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Confidence God Prosperity Resolution Yourself
Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.
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Anxiety Command Evil Exception God Greatness Prayer Worry Yourself
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
One single day of devotion is worth more than a thousand years of worldly life.
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Devotion Life World Worth
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
Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Beautiful Flower Garden Growth

We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.

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We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.

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