When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESOne single day of devotion is worth more than a thousand years of worldly life.
More St Francis De Sales Quotes
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You learn to love by loving.
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To live according to the spirit is to love according to the spirit.
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Half an hour’s meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.
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Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.
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A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity.
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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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Humility consists in not esteeming ourselves above other men, and in not seeking to be esteemed above them.
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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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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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Let us think only of spending the present day well. Then when tomorrow shall have come, it will be called today, and then we will think about it.
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During the night we must wait for the light.
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Every vocation becomes more agreeable when united with devotion.
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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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Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
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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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