Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
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Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
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Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and an be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face.
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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
