If you would fall into any extreme, let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists rigor, and yields to softness.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESIf you would fall into any extreme, let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists rigor, and yields to softness.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESYou learn to love by loving.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESNothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESBe who you are and be that well.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESHalf an hour’s meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESFriendship requires great communication.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESAnxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESIn everything, love simplicity.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESWhere there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESHe who complains, sins.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESI have made a pact with my tongue, not to speak when my heart is disturbed.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESBe who you are and do that well.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESEvery Christian needs a half-hour of prayer each day, except when he is busy, then he needs an hour.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESThere is no better means of attainment to the spiritual life Than by continually beginning again.
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.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESAll 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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