Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESDo not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
More St Francis De Sales Quotes
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Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.
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Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.
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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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I have made a pact with my tongue, not to speak when my heart is disturbed.
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Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great.
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Let God be the air in which your heart breathes at ease.
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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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It is to those who have the most need of us that we ought to show our love more especially.
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True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
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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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We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.
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Take care of your health, that it may serve you to serve God.
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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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It is right that you should begin again every day. There is no better way to complete the spiritual life than to be ever beginning it over again.
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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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