It is a great imperfection to complain unceasingly of little things.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESIn everything, love simplicity.
More St Francis De Sales Quotes
-
-
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES -
One rarely does well what one rarely does.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES -
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES -
Have Jesus always for your patron, His Cross for a mast on which you must spread your resolutions as a sail. Your anchor shall be a profound confidence in Him, and you shall sail prosperously.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES -
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.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES -
It is to those who have the most need of us that we ought to show our love more especially.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES -
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.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES -
To lose ourselves in God is simply to give up our own will to Him. When a soul can truly say Lord I have no other will than Thine it is truly lost in God and united to Him.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES -
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 SALES -
One single day of devotion is worth more than a thousand years of worldly life.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES -
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.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES -
Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES -
Humility consists in not esteeming ourselves above other men, and in not seeking to be esteemed above them.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES -
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES -
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.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES






