Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
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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Humor is the foundation of reconciliation.
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Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
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God will either shield you from suffering or give you unfailing strength to bear it.
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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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Fear is a greater evil than evil itself.
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While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.
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Every vocation becomes more agreeable when united with devotion.
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Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.
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Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.
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Never be hurried in anything. Do all things calmly and in a spirit of repose. Do not lose your inward peace even if everything seems to be going wrong. What is anything in life compared to peace of soul?
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Be who you are and do that well.
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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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Take care of your health, that it may serve you to serve God.
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You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar.
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