St Francis De Sales Quotes

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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Care God Heart See Start Strive Yourself
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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Himself Science Suffering
Be who you are and do that well.
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Be Yourself Original Self Love
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.
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Greatness Small Temptation Wolf
Every vocation becomes more agreeable when united with devotion.
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Agreement Devotion Unity
By giving yourself to God, You not only receive Himself in exchange, but eternal life as well.
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Forever God Life Yourself
We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.
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Himself Person Presence Value Work
One single day of devotion is worth more than a thousand years of worldly life.
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Devotion Life World Worth
While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.
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Busy Greatness Myself Small Value
Fear is a greater evil than evil itself.
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Evil Fear Greatness
You learn to love by loving.
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Learning Love One Liner
The greatest method of praying is to pray the Rosary.
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Greatness Prayer Religious
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
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Courage Imperfection Lose Yourself
Never be hurried in anything. Do all things calmly and in a spirit of repose. Do not lose your inward peace even if everything seems to be going wrong. What is anything in life compared to peace of soul?
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Calm Compare Hurry Lose Peace Soul Spirit
There is no better means of attainment to the spiritual life Than by continually beginning again.
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Beginning Better Spiritual
Those who pray from the heart do not think about the prayer they are saying, but about the God to whom they pray.
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God Heart Prayer Yourself
God will either shield you from suffering or give you unfailing strength to bear it.
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Failure God Strength Suffering Yourself
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.
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Construction Fall Gentle Human Mindset Resistance Side Soft
We must fear God out of love, not love Him out of fear.
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Deep Fear God Love Religious
A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity.
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Better Charity Silence Truth
Be not miserable about what may happen tomorrow. The same everlasting Father, who cares for you today, will care for you tomorrow.
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Care Father God Misery Yourself
God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.
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God Himself Person Present Work
To lose ourselves in God is simply to give up our own will to Him. When a soul can truly say Lord I have no other will than Thine it is truly lost in God and united to Him.
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Give Up God Lose Ourselves Soul True Unity
Every moment comes to us pregnant with a command from God, only to pass on and plunge into eternity, there to remain forever what we have made of it.
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Command Forever God Moments Pregnant
Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne those already laid upon you well — it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently.
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Born Desire Insult Patience
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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Balance God Hard Heart Purity Willing Work
One rarely does well what one rarely does.
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Oneself Rare

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