"Put your trust in Him and following His example, always act humbly, graciously, and in good faith."
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"Oh! how happy the man of means who uses his wealth and his life for the greater glory of God, from whom he has received them!"
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"All comes at the proper time to him who knows how to wait."
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"God always gives a great blessing to humble beginnings than to those that start with the chiming of bells."
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"Fear not; calm will follow the storm, and perhaps soon."
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"We should take as a maxim never to be surprised at current difficulties, no more than at a passing breeze, because with a little patience we shall see them disappear. Time changes everything."
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"Noise makes no good, good makes no noise."
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". . . Our Lord humbles in order to raise up, and allows the suffering of interior and exterior afflictions in order to bring about peace. He often desires some things more than we do, but wants us to merit the grace of accomplishing them by several practices of virtue and to beg for this with many prayers."
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"Be acted upon rather than active. In this way, God will do through you alone what all men put together could not do without Him."
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"Let each of us accept the truth of the following statement and try to make it our most fundamental principle: Christ's teaching will never let us down, while worldly wisdom always will. Christ Himself said that this sort of wisdom was like a house with nothing but sand as its foundation, while His own was like a building with solid rock as its foundation."
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". . . [I]n the kingdom of charity, one prefers to suffer some inconvenience rather than inconvenience the neighbor."
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"[Do not] overburden yourself with rules of devotion, but persist in doing well those you have, your daily actions, your work; in a word, let everything revolve around doing well what you are doing."
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"Even convicts, with whom I have spent some time, are not won over in any other way. Whenever I happened to speak sharply to them, I spoiled everything; on the contrary, when I praised them for their resignation and sympathized with them in their sufferings; when I told them they were fortunate to have their purgatory in this world, when I kissed their chains, showed compassion for their distress, and expressed sorrow for their misfortune, it was then that they listened to me, gave glory to God, and opened themselves to salvation."
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"It is a good sign when He burdens us with [crosses] and we carry them well, but woe to the person who runs away from them, for he will find such heavy ones that they will overwhelm him."
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"Rarely is any good done without difficulty; the devil is too subtle and the world too corrupt not to attempt to nip such a good work in the bud"
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"Always be quite simple and sincere and ask God to grant me those two virtues."
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"There are good, God-fearing persons who still fall into certain faults, and it is better to bear with them than to be hard on them."
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"[E]ven if the whole world should rise up to destroy us, nothing will happen except that God, in whom we have put our hope, will allow."
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"Let us be submissive to Providence, He will see to our affairs in His own time and in His own way"
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"Practice humility and patience."
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