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Always Keep A Good Distance Between Yourself And Lying, Quarreling, Detracting, Insulting And Gossip. The Person Who Can Do That Will Some Day Learn To Enjoy The Silence.

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Always Keep A Good Distance Between Yourself And Lying, Quarreling, Detracting, Insulting And Gossip. The Person Who Can Do That Will Some Day Learn To Enjoy The Silence.

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All Is Vanity But To Love God And Serve Him.

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If You Desire To Know Or Learn Anything To Your Advantage, Then Take Delight In Being Unknown And Unregarded. A True Understanding And Humble Estimate Of Oneself Is The Highest And Most Valuable Of All Lessons.

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Without Labor There Is No Rest, Nor Without Fighting Can The Victory Be Won.

What Most Of All Hinders Heavenly Consolation Is That You Are Too Slow In Turning Yourself To Prayer.

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Remember, Your Prerogative Is To Govern, And Not To Serve The Things Of This World.

Wheresoever We Seek Our Own, There We Fall From Love.

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You Will Never Be An Inwardly Religious And Devout Man Unless You Pass Over In Silence The Shortcomings Of Your Fellow Men, And Diligently Examine Your Own Weaknesses.

Cling, Therefore, To Jesus In Life And Death; Trust Yourself To The Glory Of Him Who Alone Can Help You When All Others Fail.

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The Reflections On A Day Well Spent Furnish Us With Joys More Pleasing Than Ten Thousand Triumphs.

Happy Is The Man Who Renounces Everything Which May Bring A Stain Or Burden Upon His Conscience

God Deceiveth Thee Not.

The Devil Does Not Tempt Unbelievers And Sinners Who Are Already His Own.

Christ Was Willing To Suffer Wrongs And To Be Despised, And Do You Dare To Complain Of Anything?.

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He Will Be With You Also, All The Way, That Faithful God. Every Morning When You Awaken To The Old And Tolerable Pain, At Every Mile Of The Hot Uphill Dusty Road Of Tiring Duty, On To The Judgment Seat, The Same Christ There As Ever, Still Loving You, Still Sufficient For You, Even Then. And Then, On Through All Eternity.

As Iron Put Into The Fire Loseth Its Rust And Becometh Clearly Red-hot, So He That Wholly Turneth Himself Unto God Puts Off All Slothfulness, And Is Transformed Into A New Man.

The Measure Of Every Man’s Virtue Is Best Revealed In Time Of Adversity - Adversity That Does Not Weaken A Man But Rather Shows What He Is.

Love Is A Mighty Power, A Great And Complete Good. Love Alone Lightens Every Burden, And Makes Rough Places Smooth. It Bears Every Hardship As Though It Were Nothing, And Renders All Bitterness Sweet And Acceptable.

Love Him, And Keep Him For Thy Friend, Who, When All Go Away, Will Not Forsake Thee, Nor Suffer Thee To Perish At The Last.

It Is Thy Duty Often Times To Do What Thou Wouldst Not; Thy Duty Too, To Leave Undone That Thou Wouldst Do.

Man Proposes, But God Disposes.

For Man Plans, But God Arranges.

If Thou Art Willing To Suffer No Adversity, How Wilt Thou Be The Friend Of Christ?

Be Yourself -the Man Who Is Neither Bent Upon Pleasing His Fellows Nor Afraid Of Offending Them Will Enjoy Great Peace.

Set Me Free From Evil Passions, And Heal My Heart Of All Inordinate Affections; That Being Inwardly Cured And Thoroughly Cleansed, I May Be Made Fit To Love, Courageous To Suffer, Steady To Persevere.

The Lord Has Many Lovers Of His Crown But Few Lovers Of His Cross.

No One Can Obtain From The Pope A Dispensation For Never Dying. [lat., Nemo Impetrare Potest A Papa Bullam Numquam Moriendi.]

All Men Are Frail; But Thou Shouldst Reckon None So Frail As Thyself.

He Who Loveth God With All His Heart Feareth Not Death, Nor Punishment, Nor Judgment, Nor Hell, Because Perfect Love Giveth Sure Access To God. But He Who Still Delighteth In Sin, No Marvel If He Is Afraid Of Death And Judgment.

In Jesus And For Him, Enemies And Friends Alike Are To Be Loved.

Ah, Lord God, Thou Holy Lover Of My Soul, When Thou Comest Into My Heart, All That Is Within Me Shall Rejoice.

Count Not Thyself To Have Found True Peace, If Thou Hast Felt No Grief; Nor That Then All Is Well If Thou Hast No Adversary; Nor That This Is Perfect, If All Things Fall Out According To Thy Desire.

What Thou Art, That Thou Art.

Love Wakes Much And Sleeps Little And, In Sleeping, Does Not Sleep. It Faints Is Not Weary; It Is Restricted In Its Liberty And Is Great Freedom. It Sees Reasons To Fear And Does Not Fear, But, Like An Ember Or A Spark Of Fire, Flames Always Upward, By The Fervor Of Its Love, Toward God, And Through The Special Help Of Grace Is Delivered From All Perils And Dangers

Always Be Thou Prepared, And So Live That Death May Never Find Thee Unprepared.

Let Nothing Disturb Thee, Let Nothing Affright Thee; All Passeth Away: God Only Shall Stay. Patience Wins All: Who Hath God, Needeth Nothing; For God Is His All.

I Have Sought For Happiness Everywhere, But I Have Found It Nowhere Except In A Little Corner With A Little Book.

There Is No Man In This World Without Some Manner Of Tribulation Or Anguish, Though He Be King Or Pope.

Carefully Avoid In Yourself Those Things Which Distrub You In Others.

Therefore, A Man Ought To Root Himself So Firmly In God That He Will Not Need The Consolations Of Men.

How Seldom We Weigh Our Neighbor In The Same Balance With Ourselves.

The More Spiritual A Man Desires To Be, The More Bitter Does His Present Life Become To Him; Because He Sees More Clearly And Perceives More Sensibly The Defects Of Human Corruption.

Inspirational Life

Whoever Puts His Confidence In Men Or In Any Creature Is Very Foolish.

If Thou Be Not Busy For Thyself Now, Who Shall Be Busy For Thee In Time To Come?

No Man Ruleth Safely But He That Is Willingly Ruled.

A Disciple Once Complained, "you Tell Us Stories, But You Never Reveal Their Meaning To Us." The Master Replied, "how Would You Like It If Someone Offered You Fruit And Then Chewed It Up For You Before Giving It To You?" If Your Heart Is Straight With God, Then Every Creature Will Be To You A Mirror Of Life And A Book Of Holy Doctrine.

He Who Loves With Purity Considers Not The Gift Of The Lover, But The Love Of The Giver.

Restrain An Inordinate Desire For Knowledge, In Which Is Found Much Anxiety And Deception. Learned Men Always Wish To Appear So, And Desire Recognition Of Their Wisdom. But There Are Many Matters, Knowledge Of Which Brings Little Or No Advantage To The Soul.

All His Glory And Beauty Come From Within, And There He Delights To Dwell, His Visits There Are Frequent, His Conversation Sweet, His Comforts Refreshing; And His Peace Passing All Understanding.

Oh, How Swiftly The Glory Of The World Passes Away!

It Is No Little Wisdom For You To Keep Yourself In Silence And In Good Peace When Evil Words Are Spoken To You, And To Turn Your Heart To God And Not To Be Troubled With The Judgment Of Others.

Few Spirits Are Made Better By The Pain And Languor Of Sickness; As Few Great Pilgrims Become Eminent Saints.

What Thou Art, That Thou Art; That God Knoweth Thee To Be And Thou Canst Be Said To Be No Greater.

Jesus Has Many Lovers Of His Kingdom Of Heaven, But He Has Few Bearers Of His Cross. Many Desire His Consolation, But Few Desire His Tribulation. He Finds Many Comrades In Eating And Drinking, But He Finds Few Hands Who Will Be With Him In His Abstinence And Fastingbut Those Who Love Jesus Purely For Himself, And Not For Their Own Profit Or Convenience, Bless Him As Heartily In Temptation And Tribulation And In All Other Adversities As They Do In Time Of Consolation. And If He Never Sent Them Consolation, They Would Still Bless And Praise Him.

It Carries A Burden Which Is No Burden; It Will Not Be Kept Back By Anything Low And Mean; It Desires To Be Free From All Wordly Affections, And Not To Be Entangled By Any Outward Prosperity, Or By Any Adversity Subdued.

What Difference Does It Make To You What Someone Else Becomes, Or Says, Or Does? You Do Not Need To Answer For Others, Only For Yourself.

So Passes Away The Glory Of This World. ('sic Transit Gloria Mundi.')

There Is No Creature So Small And Abject, That It Representeth Not The Goodness Of God.

Goodness Of God

Oh, How Quickly The World's Glory Passes Away.

Peace And Happiness Are What You Covet, But These Are Only To Be Obtained By Labor.

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Blessed Is The Pilgrim, Who In Every Place, And At All Times Of This His Banishment In The Body, Calling Upon The Holy Name Of Jesus, Calleth To Mind His Native Heavenly Land, Where His Blessed Master, The King Of Saints And Angels, Waiteth To Receive Him. Blessed Is The Pilgrim Who Seeketh Not An Abiding Place Unto Himself In This World; But Longeth To Be Dissolved, And Be With Christ In Heaven.

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We Are Often Moved With Passion And Think It To Be Zeal.

Of Two Evils We Must Always Choose The Least.

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