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.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESIt is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.
More St Francis De Sales Quotes
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In everything, love simplicity.
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Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.
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Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.
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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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Be who you are and do that well.
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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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Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
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Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.
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Half an hour’s meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.
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When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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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.
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One single day of devotion is worth more than a thousand years of worldly life.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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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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One rarely does well what one rarely does.
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