God will either shield you from suffering or give you unfailing strength to bear it.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESYou can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar.
More St Francis De Sales Quotes
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Work hard every day at increasing your purity of heart, which consists in appraising things and weighing them in the balance of God’s will.
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Have Jesus always for your patron, His Cross for a mast on which you must spread your resolutions as a sail. Your anchor shall be a profound confidence in Him, and you shall sail prosperously.
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Pride dies 20 minutes after death.
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I have made a pact with my tongue, not to speak when my heart is disturbed.
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It matters little how one begins, provided that he be resolved to go on well, and to end well.
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You learn to love by loving.
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There is nothing small in the service of God.
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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.
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Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great.
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The greatest method of praying is to pray the Rosary.
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Make yourself familiar with the angels and behold them frequently in spirit; for without being seen, they are present with you.
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Truly it is a blessed thing to love on earth as we hope to love in Heaven, and to begin that friendship here which is to endure for ever there.
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Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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Every moment comes to us pregnant with a command from God, only to pass on and plunge into eternity, there to remain forever what we have made of it.
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