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Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.

St Francis De Sales

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Contradict Difficult Gentle Time
To live according to the spirit is to love according to the spirit.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Live Love Spirit
We may be excused for not always being bright, but we are not excused for not being gracious, yielding and considerate.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Bright Grace Ourselves
You learn to love by loving.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Learning Love One Liner
Whatever happens, abide steadfast in a determination to cling simply to God.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Determination God Simplicity
One single act done with aridity of spirit is worth more than many done with feelings of devotion.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Devotion Feeling Oneself Spirit Worth
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Notice Persistence Progress True
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.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Beginning Earth Endurance Heaven Hope Love True
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.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Command Forever God Moments Pregnant
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Gentle Reality Strength Strong
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.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Angry Enemy Exception Ourselves Scream Soul
It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Bad Better Excellence Silence Talk
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.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Learning Love Ourselves Study Talk Thinking
Be not miserable about what may happen tomorrow. The same everlasting Father, who cares for you today, will care for you tomorrow.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Care Father God Misery Yourself
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.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Greatness Small Temptation Wolf
He who can preserve gentleness amid pains, and peace amid worry multitude of affairs, is almost perfect.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Gentle Himself Pain Peace Perfection Preserve

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