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Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.

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

Come Future Present Thinking
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?
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Accommodation Children Fast God Hands Happiness Hold Yourself
In everything, love simplicity.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Love One Liner Simplicity
Work hard every day at increasing your purity of heart, which consists in appraising things and weighing them in the balance of God’s will.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Balance God Hard Heart Purity Willing Work
Every Christian needs a half-hour of prayer each day, except when he is busy, then he needs an hour.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Busy Exception Himself Need Prayer
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Gentle Reality Strength Strong
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
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
Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

God Greatness Oneself Service Surround
Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Desire God Great Strong
It matters little how one begins, provided that he be resolved to go on well, and to end well.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Beginning End Himself Move On
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
There is no better means of attainment to the spiritual life Than by continually beginning again.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Beginning Better Spiritual
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Courage Imperfection Lose Yourself
Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Patience Yourself
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.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Care God Heart See Start Strive Yourself

Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.

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