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.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESIt 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.
More St Francis De Sales Quotes
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Take care of your health, that it may serve you to serve God.
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One single day of devotion is worth more than a thousand years of worldly life.
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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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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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A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity.
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The greatest method of praying is to pray the Rosary.
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Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
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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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To live according to the spirit is to love according to the spirit.
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Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
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If, when stung by slander or ill-nature, we wax proud and swell with anger, it is a proof that our gentleness and humility are unreal, and mere artificial show.
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God takes pleasure to see you take your little steps; and like a good father who holds his child by the hand, He will accommodate His steps to yours and will be content to go no faster than you. Why do you worry?
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A heart-memory is better than a mere head-memory. Better to carry away a little of the love of Christ in our souls, than if we were able to repeat every word of every sermon we ever heard.
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Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
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True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
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It is a great imperfection to complain unceasingly of little things.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.
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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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Cook the truth in charity until it tastes sweet.
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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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There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity.
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Let God be the air in which your heart breathes at ease.
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Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great.
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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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Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.
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