St Francis De Sales on patience
St Francis De Sales91 quotes“Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.”
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St Francis De SalesSt Francis De Sales Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
St Francis De SalesSt Francis De Sales God takes pleasure to see you take your little steps; and like a good father who holds his child by the hand, He will accommodate His steps to yours and will be content to go no faster than you. Why do you worry?
St Francis De SalesSt Francis De Sales Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.
St Francis De SalesSt Francis De Sales 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.
St Francis De SalesSt Francis De Sales The whole world is not worth one soul.
St Francis De SalesSt Francis De Sales 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 SalesSt Francis De Sales By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.
St Francis De SalesSt Francis De Sales 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 SalesSt Francis De Sales Every morning prepare your soul for a tranquil day.
St Francis De SalesSt Francis De Sales Be who you are and be that well.
St Francis De SalesSt Francis De Sales Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great.
St Francis De SalesSt Francis De Sales There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity.
St Francis De SalesSt Francis De Sales He who complains, sins.
St Francis De SalesSt Francis De Sales Humor is the foundation of reconciliation.
St Francis De SalesSt Francis De Sales Take care of your health, that it may serve you to serve God.
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
Bertrand RussellBertrand Russell Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
Immanuel KantImmanuel Kant It is difficult to be patient but to waste the rewards of patience is worse.
Abu BakrAbu Bakr A little patience, and all will be over.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft The being who patiently endures injustice, and silently bears insults, will soon become unjust, or unable to discern right from wrong.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.
Charles DickensCharles Dickens I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
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