One single day of devotion is worth more than a thousand years of worldly life.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESAll of us can attain to Christian virtue and holiness, no matter in what condition of life we live and no matter what our life work may be.
More St Francis De Sales Quotes
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During the night we must wait for the light.
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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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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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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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True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
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Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
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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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Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
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Pride dies 20 minutes after death.
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We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.
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Let the enemy rage at the gate; let him knock, pound, scream, howl; let him do his worst. We know for certain that he cannot enter our soul except by the door of our consent.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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Make yourself familiar with the angels and behold them frequently in spirit; for without being seen, they are present with you.
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He who complains, sins.
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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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