True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESYou can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar.
More St Francis De Sales Quotes
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Be who you are and be that well.
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Be who you are and do that well.
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It matters little how one begins, provided that he be resolved to go on well, and to end well.
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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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Every vocation becomes more agreeable when united with devotion.
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Take care of your health, that it may serve you to serve God.
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To live according to the spirit is to love according to the spirit.
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Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great.
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Fear is a greater evil than evil itself.
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Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.
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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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Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily.
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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.
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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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Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
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