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 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.
More St Francis De Sales Quotes
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Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great.
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Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.
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One rarely does well what one rarely does.
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If, when stung by slander or ill-nature, we wax proud and swell with anger, it is a proof that our gentleness and humility are unreal, and mere artificial show.
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Cook the truth in charity until it tastes sweet.
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You learn to love by loving.
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Every morning prepare your soul for a tranquil day.
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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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All the science of the Saints is included in these two things: To do, and to suffer. And whoever had done these two things best, has made himself most saintly.
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Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
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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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A heart-memory is better than a mere head-memory. Better to carry away a little of the love of Christ in our souls, than if we were able to repeat every word of every sermon we ever heard.
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In everything, love simplicity.
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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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Fear is a greater evil than evil itself.
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