Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESHe who can preserve gentleness amid pains, and peace amid worry multitude of affairs, is almost perfect.
More St Francis De Sales Quotes
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When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.
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Take care of your health, that it may serve you to serve God.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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Let us think only of spending the present day well. Then when tomorrow shall have come, it will be called today, and then we will think about it.
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For every great temptation there will be many small ones. Wolves and bears are more dangerous than flies, but we are bothered most by flies.
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Be not miserable about what may happen tomorrow. The same everlasting Father, who cares for you today, will care for you tomorrow.
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Pride dies 20 minutes after death.
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We must fear God out of love, not love Him out of fear.
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Every morning prepare your soul for a tranquil day.
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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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I have made a pact with my tongue, not to speak when my heart is disturbed.
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It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.
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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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Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.
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While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.
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He who can preserve gentleness amid pains, and peace amid worry multitude of affairs, is almost perfect.
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If you would fall into any extreme, let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists rigor, and yields to softness.
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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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During the night we must wait for the light.
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Every vocation becomes more agreeable when united with devotion.
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God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.
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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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There is no better means of attainment to the spiritual life Than by continually beginning again.
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Those who pray from the heart do not think about the prayer they are saying, but about the God to whom they pray.
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Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne those already laid upon you well — it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently.
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