By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESIt is a great imperfection to complain unceasingly of little things.
More St Francis De Sales Quotes
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Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.
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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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The greatest method of praying is to pray the Rosary.
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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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It is a great imperfection to complain unceasingly of little things.
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One rarely does well what one rarely does.
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The Lord delights in every little step you take.
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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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It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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Take care of your health, that it may serve you to serve God.
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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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Cook the truth in charity until it tastes sweet.
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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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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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