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• We should spend as much time in thanking God for his benefits as we do in asking him for them.
• Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.
• We should strive to keep our hearts open to the sufferings and wretchedness of other people, and pray continually that God may…
• All comes at the proper time to him who knows how to wait.
• We must love our neighbor as being made in the image of God and as an object of His love.
• All beginnings are somewhat strange; but we must have patience, and little by little, we shall find things, which at first were…
• Remember, Monsieur that roses are not gathered except in the midst of thorns and that heroic acts of virtue are accomplished only…
• Perfection consists in a constant perseverance to acquire the virtues and become proficient in their practice, because on God's road, not to…
• [A] truly humble spirit humbles itself as much amid honors as amid insults, acting like the honeybee which makes its honey equally…
• [W]ork at ridding yourself of the esteem you have had up to now for the glitter and sparkle of virtue and the…
• One beautiful diamond is worth more than a mountain of stones, and one virtuous act of acquiescence and submission is better than…
• God has granted me today a very particular fondness for requesting of Him that same virtue of ever choosing the worst and…

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