Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESHave patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESDon’t get upset with your imperfections. Surrender to the Power of God’s Love, which is greater than our weakness.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESBe patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESTruly 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.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESBe who you are and do that well.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESNothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESPride dies 20 minutes after death.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESFriendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESA judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESWork hard every day at increasing your purity of heart, which consists in appraising things and weighing them in the balance of God’s will.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESGreat occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESDuring the night we must wait for the light.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESLet 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.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESDo not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESThere is no better means of attainment to the spiritual life Than by continually beginning again.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESThe greatest method of praying is to pray the Rosary.
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