Take care of your health, that it may serve you to serve God.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESStrive to see God in all things without exception. Do not smother yourself…If you start smothering yourself with a host of cares and longings and wishes … you will be disabling yourself from serving God with all your heart.
More St Francis De Sales Quotes
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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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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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You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar.
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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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Let God be the air in which your heart breathes at ease.
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We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.
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If, when stung by slander or ill-nature, we wax proud and swell with anger, it is a proof that our gentleness and humility are unreal, and mere artificial show.
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He who complains, sins.
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A heart-memory is better than a mere head-memory. Better to carry away a little of the love of Christ in our souls, than if we were able to repeat every word of every sermon we ever heard.
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It is a great imperfection to complain unceasingly of little things.
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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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One single act done with aridity of spirit is worth more than many done with feelings of devotion.
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Nothing appeases an enraged elephant so much as the sight of a little lamb.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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Cook the truth in charity until it tastes sweet.
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