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Strive 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.

St Francis De Sales

There is no better means of attainment to the spiritual life Than by continually beginning again.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Beginning Better Spiritual
Take care of your health, that it may serve you to serve God.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Care God Health Service
Every Christian needs a half-hour of prayer each day, except when he is busy, then he needs an hour.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Busy Exception Himself Need Prayer
We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Choice Evil Freedom Goodness Ourselves
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.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Confidence God Prosperity Resolution Yourself
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Be Yourself Perfection Self Love Try
Nothing appeases an enraged elephant so much as the sight of a little lamb.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Angry Animal Sight
What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Love Need Ocean Patience Understand
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.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Come Future Present Thinking
Fear is a greater evil than evil itself.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Evil Fear Greatness
It matters little how one begins, provided that he be resolved to go on well, and to end well.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Beginning End Himself Move On
Those who pray from the heart do not think about the prayer they are saying, but about the God to whom they pray.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

God Heart Prayer Yourself
Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Beautiful Flower Garden Growth
Many who confess their venial sins out of custom and concern for order but without thought of amendment remain burdened with them for their whole life and thus lose many spiritual benefits and advantages.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Advantage Confession Life Order Spiritual
While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Busy Greatness Myself Small Value
During the night we must wait for the light.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Light Night Wait

Strive 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.

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