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Pivot Prayers
Printable Maxims
- Be Always with Christ.
- Pray as you can, not as you think you ought.
- Have a keepable rule of prayer.
- Say the Lord’s Prayer.
- Repeat a short prayer.
- Make some prostrations.
- Eat good foods in moderation.
- Keep the Church’s fasting rules.
- Spend some time in silence every day.
- Do acts of mercy in secret.
- Go to liturgical services regularly.
- Go to confession and communion regularly.
- Do not engage intrusive thoughts and feelings. Cut them off from the start.
- Reveal all you thoughts and feelings regularly to a trusted person.
- Read the scriptures regularly.
- Read good books a little at a time.
- Cultivate communion with the saints.
- Be an ordinary person.
- Be polite with everyone.
- Maintain cleanliness and order in your home.
- Have a healthy, wholesome hobby.
- Exercise Regularly.
- Live a day, and a part of a day, at a time.
- Be totally honest, first of all, with yourself.
- Be faithful in little things.
- Do your work, and then forget it.
- Do the most difficult and painful things first.
- Face Reality.
- Be grateful in all things.
- Be Cheerful.
- Be simple, hidden, quiet and small.
- Never bring attention to yourself.
- Listen when people talk to you.
- Be awake and be attentive.
- Think and talk about things no more than necessary.
- When we speak, speak simply, clearly, firmly, and directly.
- Flee imagination, fantasy, analysis, figuring things out.
- Flee carnal, sexual, things at their first appearance.
- Don’t complain, grumble, murmur, or whine.
- Don’t compare yourself with anyone.
- Don’t seek or expect praise or pity from anyone.
- We don’t judge anyone for anything.
- Don’t try to convince anyone of anything.
- Don’t defend or justify yourself.
- Be defined by God alone.
- Accept criticism gratefully but test it carefully.
- Give advice to others only when asked to do so or when it is your duty to do so.
- Do nothing for anyone that they can and should do for themselves.
- Have a daily schedule of activities, avoiding whim and caprice.
- Be merciful with yourself and with others.
- Have no expectations, except to be fiercely tempted to your very last breath.
- Focus exclusively on God and light.
- Endure the trial of yourself- and your own faults and sins- peacefully, serenely, under the mercy of God.
- When we fall, get up immediately and start over.
- Get help when you need it, without fear and without shame.
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