Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESLet God be the air in which your heart breathes at ease.
More St Francis De Sales Quotes
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God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.
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It is a great imperfection to complain unceasingly of little things.
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One rarely does well what one rarely does.
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Take care of your health, that it may serve you to serve God.
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Every Christian needs a half-hour of prayer each day, except when he is busy, then he needs an hour.
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Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.
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There is no better means of attainment to the spiritual life Than by continually beginning again.
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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
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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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There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity.
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God will either shield you from suffering or give you unfailing strength to bear it.
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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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By giving yourself to God, You not only receive Himself in exchange, but eternal life as 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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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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