Cook the truth in charity until it tastes sweet.
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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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 learn to love by loving.
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There is nothing small in the service of God.
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There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity.
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It matters little how one begins, provided that he be resolved to go on well, and to end well.
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Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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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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You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar.
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While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.
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If you would fall into any extreme, let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists rigor, and yields to softness.
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We may be excused for not always being bright, but we are not excused for not being gracious, yielding and considerate.
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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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It is to those who have the most need of us that we ought to show our love more especially.
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Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
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