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Pity enlarges the heart.
Speak, move, act in peace.
Good taste rejects excessive nicety.
Time spent in prayer is never wasted.
It is better to die than to tell a lie
The most essential point is lowliness.
Little opportunities should be improved.
Were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.
The more you say, the less people remember.
I no longer desire anything but to be Thine.
Those who are wholly God's are always happy.
There is never any peace for those who resist God.
O Lord, I do most cheerfully commit all unto Thee.
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
The best use one can make of his mind is to distrust it.
Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.
Listen less to your own thoughts and more to God's thoughts.
Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul.
How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.
Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed by prudence.
Worry is the cross which we make for ourselves by over anxiety.
Oh! how seldom the soul is silent, in order that God may speak.
Let gratitude for the past inspire us with trust for the future.
Nothing is so costly as the pursuit of a cure for imaginary ills.
The wind of God is always blowing... but you must hoist your sail.
The presence of God calms the soul, and gives it quiet and repose.
The greater our dread of crosses, the more necessary they are for us.
We may as well tolerate all religions, since God Himself tolerates all.
Make this simple rule the guide of your life: to have no will but God's.
To pray is to desire; but it is to desire what God would have us desire.
Violent excitement exhausts the mind and leaves it withered and sterile.
We are not to choose the manner in which our blessings shall be bestowed.
You really don't even own the present moment, for even this belongs to God.
Our piety must be weak and imperfect if it do not conquer our fear of death.
Temptations are a file which rub off much of the rust of our self-confidence.
He who prays without confidence cannot hope that his prayers will be granted.
God never makes us sensible of our weakness except to give us of His strength.
Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer.
The realization of God's presence is the one sovereign remedy against temptation.
Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.
Above all, live in the present moment and God will give you all the grace you need.
The gifts of God are not to be rejected on account of the channel that brings them.
When kings interfere in matters of religion, they enslave instead of protecting it.
Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.
I love my country better than my family; but I love humanity better than my country.
How does our will become sanctified? By conforming itself unreservedly to that of God.
God is so good that He only awaits our desire to overwhelm us with the gift of himself.
Frequently a big advantage can be gained by knowing how to give in at the right moment.
Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.
There is no more dangerous illusion than the fancies by which people try to avoid illusion.