Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESBe not miserable about what may happen tomorrow. The same everlasting Father, who cares for you today, will care for you tomorrow.
More St Francis De Sales Quotes
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Faith is like a bright ray of sun light. It enables us to see God in all things as well as all things in God.
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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.
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One single act done with aridity of spirit is worth more than many done with feelings of devotion.
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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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It is to those who have the most need of us that we ought to show our love more especially.
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Pride dies 20 minutes after death.
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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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There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity.
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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 a great imperfection to complain unceasingly of little things.
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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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What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.
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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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Have Jesus always for your patron, His Cross for a mast on which you must spread your resolutions as a sail. Your anchor shall be a profound confidence in Him, and you shall sail prosperously.
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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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