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You learn to love by loving.

St Francis De Sales

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.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Born Desire Insult Patience
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.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Confidence God Prosperity Resolution Yourself
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.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Command Forever God Moments Pregnant
Be not miserable about what may happen tomorrow. The same everlasting Father, who cares for you today, will care for you tomorrow.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Care Father God Misery Yourself
Those who pray from the heart do not think about the prayer they are saying, but about the God to whom they pray.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

God Heart Prayer Yourself
For every great temptation there will be many small ones. Wolves and bears are more dangerous than flies, but we are bothered most by flies.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Greatness Small Temptation Wolf
One single day of devotion is worth more than a thousand years of worldly life.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Devotion Life World Worth
We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Choice Evil Freedom Goodness Ourselves
You learn to love by loving.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Learning Love One Liner
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?
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Calm Compare Hurry Lose Peace Soul Spirit
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.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Beginning Earth Endurance Heaven Hope Love True
It is a great imperfection to complain unceasingly of little things.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Complaint Greatness Imperfection
Fear is a greater evil than evil itself.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Evil Fear Greatness
In everything, love simplicity.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Love One Liner Simplicity
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.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Give Up God Lose Ourselves Soul True Unity
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Gentle Reality Strength Strong

You learn to love by loving.

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