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 SALESLet God be the air in which your heart breathes at ease.
More St Francis De Sales Quotes
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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.
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Pride dies 20 minutes after death.
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We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.
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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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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.
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One single day of devotion is worth more than a thousand years of worldly life.
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The Lord delights in every little step you take.
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Let the enemy rage at the gate; let him knock, pound, scream, howl; let him do his worst. We know for certain that he cannot enter our soul except by the door of our consent.
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Fear is a greater evil than evil itself.
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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.
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Humility consists in not esteeming ourselves above other men, and in not seeking to be esteemed above them.
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Be who you are and do that well.
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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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Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
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There is no better means of attainment to the spiritual life Than by continually beginning again.
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I have made a pact with my tongue, not to speak when my heart is disturbed.
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Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.
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Never be hurried in anything. Do all things calmly and in a spirit of repose. Do not lose your inward peace even if everything seems to be going wrong. What is anything in life compared to peace of soul?
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All of us can attain to Christian virtue and holiness, no matter in what condition of life we live and no matter what our life work may be.
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Nothing appeases an enraged elephant so much as the sight of a little lamb.
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Every vocation becomes more agreeable when united with devotion.
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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 Christian needs a half-hour of prayer each day, except when he is busy, then he needs an hour.
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One single act done with aridity of spirit is worth more than many done with feelings of devotion.
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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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It is to those who have the most need of us that we ought to show our love more especially.
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