Don’t get upset with your imperfections. Surrender to the Power of God’s Love, which is greater than our weakness.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES
There is nothing as strong as tenderness, And nothing as tender as true strength.
More St Francis De Sales Quotes
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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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We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.
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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
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Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.
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Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne those already laid upon you well — it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently.
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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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Be who you are and be that well.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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There is no better means of attainment to the spiritual life Than by continually beginning again.
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Work hard every day at increasing your purity of heart, which consists in appraising things and weighing them in the balance of God’s will.
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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?
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For every great temptation there will be many small ones. Wolves and bears are more dangerous than flies, but we are bothered most by flies.
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Every vocation becomes more agreeable when united with devotion.
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Be who you are and do that well.
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Fear is a greater evil than evil itself.
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One rarely does well what one rarely does.
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