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You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar.

St Francis De Sales

You learn to love by loving.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Learning Love One Liner
There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Artificial Desire Goodness Simplicity
It is right that you should begin again every day. There is no better way to complete the spiritual life than to be ever beginning it over again.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Beginning Better Life Right Spiritual
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Learning Love Ourselves Study Talk Thinking
Faith is like a bright ray of sun light. It enables us to see God in all things as well as all things in God.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Bright Faith God Light Sun
We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Choice Evil Freedom Goodness Ourselves
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Contradict Difficult Gentle Time
Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean do not be disheartened by your imperfections, but always rise up with fresh courage.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Courage Heart Imperfection Patience Rise
Many who confess their venial sins out of custom and concern for order but without thought of amendment remain burdened with them for their whole life and thus lose many spiritual benefits and advantages.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Advantage Confession Life Order Spiritual
In everything, love simplicity.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Love One Liner Simplicity
Every Christian needs a half-hour of prayer each day, except when he is busy, then he needs an hour.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Busy Exception Himself Need Prayer
Strive to see God in all things without exception. Do not smother yourself…If you start smothering yourself with a host of cares and longings and wishes … you will be disabling yourself from serving God with all your heart.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Care God Heart See Start Strive Yourself
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Be Yourself Perfection Self Love Try
One rarely does well what one rarely does.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Oneself Rare
Pride dies 20 minutes after death.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Death One Liner Pride
It is a great imperfection to complain unceasingly of little things.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Complaint Greatness Imperfection

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