One great remedy against all manner of temptation, great or small, is to open the heart and lay bare its suggestion, likings, and dislikings before some spiritual adviser for, ... the first condition which the Evil One makes with a soul, when he wants to entrap it, is silence.
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While extremely sensitive as to the slightest approach to slander, you must also guard against an extreme into which some people fall, who, in their desire to speak evil of no one, actually uphold and speak well of vice. If you have to do with one who is unquestionably a slanderer, do not excuse him by calling him frank and free-spoken do not call one who is notoriously vain, liberal and elegant do not call dangerous levities mere simplicity do not screen disobedience under the name of zeal or arrogance, of frankness or evil intimacy, of friendship. No, my friends, we must never, in our wish to shun slander, foster or flatter vice in others but we must call evil evil, and sin sin, and so doing we shall serve God's glory.
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He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying.
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Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.
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