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 SALESFriendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
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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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.
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Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great.
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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.
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Fear is a greater evil than evil itself.
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The whole world is not worth one soul.
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There is nothing as strong as tenderness, And nothing as tender as true strength.
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He who can preserve gentleness amid pains, and peace amid worry multitude of affairs, is almost perfect.
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We must fear God out of love, not love Him out of fear.
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Nothing appeases an enraged elephant so much as the sight of a little lamb.
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Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
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Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily.
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He who complains, sins.
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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 with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
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