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When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

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Encouragement, Trying, Encounters

Saint Francis (de Sales) (1953). “Spiritual maxims”

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Truly it is a blessed thing to love on earth as we hope to love in Heaven, and to begin that friendship here which is to endure for ever there.

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Blessed, Heaven, Earth

Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.243, Catholic Way Publishing

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God will either shield you from suffering or give you unfailing strength to bear it.

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Giving, Suffering, Shields

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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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Appreciation, Should, Workmen

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True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

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Inspirational, Motivational, Encouragement

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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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Temptation, Bears, Dangerous

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Go in all simplicity; do not be anxious to win a quiet mind, and it will be all the quieter. Do not examine so closely into the progress of your soul. Do not crave too much to be perfect, but let your spiritual life beformed by your duties, and by the actions which are called forth by circumstances.

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Spiritual, Winning, Perfect

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Fear is a greater evil than evil itself.

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Fear, Evil, Greater

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It matters little how one begins, provided that he be resolved to go on well, and to end well.

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Goes On, Littles, Matter

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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.

Saint Francis de Sales

Giving Up, Soul, Lord

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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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Losing A Loved One, Angel, Saint

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Professions of humility are the very cream, the very essence of pride; the really humble person wishes to be, and not to appear so. Humility is timorous, and starts at her shadow; and so delicate that if she hears her name pronounced it endangers her existence.

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Humble, Humility, Pride

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One great remedy against all manner of temptation, great or small, is to open the heart and lay bare its suggestion, likings, and dislikings before some spiritual adviser; for, . . . the first condition which the Evil One makes with a soul, when he wants to entrap it, is silence.

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Spiritual, Heart, Evil

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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

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Inspirational, Life And Love, Self Esteem

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One rarely does well what one rarely does.

Saint Francis de Sales

Doe, Wells

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Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew.

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Inspirational, Depression, Patience

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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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Spiritual, Way, Should

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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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Memories, Heart, Soul

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 373, 1895.

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We do not very often come across opportunities for exercising strength, magnanimity, or magnificence; but gentleness, temperance, modesty, and humility, are graces which ought to colour everything we do. There may be virtues of a more exalted mould, but... these are the most continually called for in daily life.

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Humility, Exercise, Opportunity

Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.177, Catholic Way Publishing

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We must fear God out of love, not love Him out of fear.

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Saint, Fear God

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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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Love, Education, Running

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Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean, do not be disturbed because of your imperfections, and always rise up bravely from a fall. I am glad that you make a daily new beginning; there is no better means of progress in the spiritual life than to be continually beginning afresh, and never to think that we have done enough.

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Spiritual, Fall, New Beginnings

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Humor is the foundation of reconciliation.

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Foundation, Theologian, Reconciliation

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Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

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Patience, Love Yourself, Recovery

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Oh what remorse we shall feel at the end of our lives, when we look back upon the great number of instructions and examples afforded by God and the Saints for our perfection, and so carelessly received by us! If this end were to come to you today, how would you be pleased with the life you have led this year?

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Years, Numbers, Perfection

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Born: August 16, 1567
Died: December 28, 1622
Occupation: Bishop of Geneva
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