Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESHe who complains, sins.
More St Francis De Sales Quotes
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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.
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While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.
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We may be excused for not always being bright, but we are not excused for not being gracious, yielding and considerate.
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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.
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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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Nothing appeases an enraged elephant so much as the sight of a little lamb.
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I have made a pact with my tongue, not to speak when my heart is disturbed.
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Humor is the foundation of reconciliation.
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One single day of devotion is worth more than a thousand years of worldly life.
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The whole world is not worth one soul.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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Every vocation becomes more agreeable when united with devotion.
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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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Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
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Humility consists in not esteeming ourselves above other men, and in not seeking to be esteemed above them.
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