Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.
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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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
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Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great.
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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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Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily.
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Work hard every day at increasing your purity of heart, which consists in appraising things and weighing them in the balance of God’s will.
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While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.
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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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Nothing appeases an enraged elephant so much as the sight of a little lamb.
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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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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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Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
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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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God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.
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All of us can attain to Christian virtue and holiness, no matter in what condition of life we live and no matter what our life work may be.
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There is no better means of attainment to the spiritual life Than by continually beginning again.
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