Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESCook the truth in charity until it tastes sweet.
More St Francis De Sales Quotes
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While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.
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There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity.
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Be not miserable about what may happen tomorrow. The same everlasting Father, who cares for you today, will care for you tomorrow.
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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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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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One single day of devotion is worth more than a thousand years of worldly life.
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God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.
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Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
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Be who you are and do that well.
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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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During the night we must wait for the light.
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There is nothing small in the service of God.
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Let God be the air in which your heart breathes at ease.
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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
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One rarely does well what one rarely does.
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