Faith is like a bright ray of sun light. It enables us to see God in all things as well as all things in God.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESYou 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.
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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The Lord delights in every little step you take.
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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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True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
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Let God be the air in which your heart breathes at ease.
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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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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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It is to those who have the most need of us that we ought to show our love more especially.
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We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.
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Be who you are and do that well.
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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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Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.
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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
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The whole world is not worth one soul.
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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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Don’t get upset with your imperfections. Surrender to the Power of God’s Love, which is greater than our weakness.
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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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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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Humor is the foundation of reconciliation.
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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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Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great.
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We must fear God out of love, not love Him out of fear.
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Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.
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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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Fear is a greater evil than evil itself.
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