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Half an hour’s meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.

St Francis De Sales

Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Fools Himself Hold Man Wisdom
You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Attraction Choice Yourself
Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Patience Yourself
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.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Angry Enemy Exception Ourselves Scream Soul
All of us can attain to Christian virtue and holiness, no matter in what condition of life we live and no matter what our life work may be.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Holy Life Live Ourselves Virtue Work
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.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Come Future Present Thinking
One single day of devotion is worth more than a thousand years of worldly life.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Devotion Life World Worth
Take care of your health, that it may serve you to serve God.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Care God Health Service
Have Jesus always for your patron, His Cross for a mast on which you must spread your resolutions as a sail. Your anchor shall be a profound confidence in Him, and you shall sail prosperously.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Confidence God Prosperity Resolution Yourself
There is no better means of attainment to the spiritual life Than by continually beginning again.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Beginning Better Spiritual
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Be Yourself Perfection Self Love Try
There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Artificial Desire Goodness Simplicity
There is nothing small in the service of God.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

God Service Small Value
It is to those who have the most need of us that we ought to show our love more especially.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Love Need Ourselves
By giving yourself to God, You not only receive Himself in exchange, but eternal life as well.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Forever God Life Yourself
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.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Himself Science Suffering

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