Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESDon’t get upset with your imperfections. Surrender to the Power of God’s Love, which is greater than our weakness.
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 learn to love by loving.
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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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God will either shield you from suffering or give you unfailing strength to bear it.
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Take care of your health, that it may serve you to serve God.
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Whatever happens, abide steadfast in a determination to cling simply to God.
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It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.
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True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
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To lose ourselves in God is simply to give up our own will to Him. When a soul can truly say Lord I have no other will than Thine it is truly lost in God and united to Him.
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Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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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.
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Don’t get upset with your imperfections. Surrender to the Power of God’s Love, which is greater than our weakness.
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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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Half an hour’s meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.
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