Take care of your health, that it may serve you to serve God.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESHe who can preserve gentleness amid pains, and peace amid worry multitude of affairs, is almost perfect.
More St Francis De Sales Quotes
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Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily.
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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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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
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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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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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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
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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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Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
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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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God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.
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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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He who can preserve gentleness amid pains, and peace amid worry multitude of affairs, is almost perfect.
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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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Humor is the foundation of reconciliation.
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