St Francis De Sales on complaint
St Francis De Sales91 quotes“It is a great imperfection to complain unceasingly of little things.”
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Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
St Francis De SalesSt Francis De Sales 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?
St Francis De SalesSt Francis De Sales There is no better means of attainment to the spiritual life Than by continually beginning again.
St Francis De SalesSt Francis De Sales Those who pray from the heart do not think about the prayer they are saying, but about the God to whom they pray.
St Francis De SalesSt Francis De Sales God will either shield you from suffering or give you unfailing strength to bear it.
St Francis De SalesSt Francis De Sales 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.
St Francis De SalesSt Francis De Sales We must fear God out of love, not love Him out of fear.
St Francis De SalesSt Francis De Sales Be not miserable about what may happen tomorrow. The same everlasting Father, who cares for you today, will care for you tomorrow.
St Francis De SalesSt Francis De Sales A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity.
St Francis De SalesSt Francis De Sales God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.
St Francis De SalesSt Francis De Sales 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.
St Francis De SalesSt Francis De Sales 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.
St Francis De SalesSt Francis De Sales 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.
St Francis De SalesSt Francis De Sales 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 SalesSt Francis De Sales One rarely does well what one rarely does.
St Francis De SalesSt Francis De Sales Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.
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Always bring money along with your complaints.
PlautusPlautus Complaint is a prayer to the devil.
Michael BeckwithMichael Beckwith When we shift from negatively complaining to positively affirming, conditions change. Then complaining is no longer the operative law in our life-freedom is.
Michael BeckwithMichael Beckwith Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
Gottfried LeibnizGottfried Leibniz There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
MoliereMoliere O you who complain to people about your misfortunes, what good will it do you to complain to creatures?
Abdul Qadir GilaniAbdul Qadir Gilani On others pride hushes them to silence; no complaint is made for they scorn pity or sympathy.
Abby May AlcottAbby May Alcott First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac