While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESNever 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?
More St Francis De Sales Quotes
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Take care of your health, that it may serve you to serve 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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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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Cook the truth in charity until it tastes sweet.
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Those who pray from the heart do not think about the prayer they are saying, but about the God to whom they pray.
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Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
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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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Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.
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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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Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily.
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He who can preserve gentleness amid pains, and peace amid worry multitude of affairs, is almost perfect.
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A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity.
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The greatest method of praying is to pray the Rosary.
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One rarely does well what one rarely does.
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There is nothing small in the service of God.
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