Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great.
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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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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Humility consists in not esteeming ourselves above other men, and in not seeking to be esteemed above them.
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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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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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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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All the science of the Saints is included in these two things: To do, and to suffer. And whoever had done these two things best, has made himself most saintly.
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It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.
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There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity.
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Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.
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In everything, love simplicity.
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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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One rarely does well what one rarely does.
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He who complains, sins.
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Pride dies 20 minutes after death.
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There is nothing small in the service of God.
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