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Worry is a weakness from which very few of us are entirely free. We must be on guard against this most insidious enemy of our peace of soul. Instead let us foster confidence in God, and thank Him ahead of time for whatever he chooses to send us.
–Solanus Casey (1870-1957)
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There are no difficulties except for those who worry too much about tomorrow.
— Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne (1769-1852)
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If you have promised Christ to go by the strait and narrow way, restrain your stomach, because by pleasing it and enlarging it, you break your contract. Attend and you will hear Him who says: “Spacious and broad is the way of the belly that leads to the perdition of fornication, and many there are who go in by it; because narrow is the gate and strait is the way of fasting that leads to the life of purity, and few there be that find it.”
— Saint John Climacus (c. 525-606)
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If you are not tempted, you have no hope; if you are not tempted, it is because you are sinning. The man who does not fight sin at the stage of temptation is sinning already in his body. The man who is sinning in his flesh has no trouble from temptation.
–Saint Cyrus of Alexandria (martyred 311)
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Temperance teaches us to use with moderation and sobriety the food, drink, clothing and the other things necessary to support the human body.
–Saint John of God (1495-1550)
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There is no one who is without faults, and who is not in some way a burden to others, whether he is a superior or a subject, an old man or a young one, a scholar or a dunce.
— Saint Robert Bellermine (1542-1621)
