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.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESFor every great temptation there will be many small ones. Wolves and bears are more dangerous than flies, but we are bothered most by flies.
More St Francis De Sales Quotes
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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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Half an hour’s meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.
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In everything, love simplicity.
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Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.
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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.
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Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.
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Every Christian needs a half-hour of prayer each day, except when he is busy, then he needs an hour.
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Be not miserable about what may happen tomorrow. The same everlasting Father, who cares for you today, will care for you tomorrow.
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Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
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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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Pride dies 20 minutes after death.
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One rarely does well what one rarely does.
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To live according to the spirit is to love according to the spirit.
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A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity.
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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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