While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESMany 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.
More St Francis De Sales Quotes
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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
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There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity.
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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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One rarely does well what one rarely does.
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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.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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Fear is a greater evil than evil itself.
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Those who pray from the heart do not think about the prayer they are saying, but about the God to whom they pray.
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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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Let God be the air in which your heart breathes at ease.
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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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Let the enemy rage at the gate; let him knock, pound, scream, howl; let him do his worst. We know for certain that he cannot enter our soul except by the door of our consent.
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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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During the night we must wait for the light.
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Humility consists in not esteeming ourselves above other men, and in not seeking to be esteemed above them.
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