God takes pleasure to see you take your little steps; and like a good father who holds his child by the hand, He will accommodate His steps to yours and will be content to go no faster than you. Why do you worry?
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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What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.
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You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar.
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Half an hour’s meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.
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Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.
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It is right that you should begin again every day. There is no better way to complete the spiritual life than to be ever beginning it over again.
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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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He who complains, sins.
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One single act done with aridity of spirit is worth more than many done with feelings of devotion.
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There is no better means of attainment to the spiritual life Than by continually beginning again.
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Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.
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There is nothing small in the service of God.
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Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.
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Faith is like a bright ray of sun light. It enables us to see God in all things as well as all things in God.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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