If you would fall into any extreme, let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists rigor, and yields to softness.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESFaith is like a bright ray of sun light. It enables us to see God in all things as well as all things in God.
More St Francis De Sales Quotes
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Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
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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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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.
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There is nothing small in the service of God.
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Every vocation becomes more agreeable when united with devotion.
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Let God be the air in which your heart breathes at ease.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.
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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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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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Truly it is a blessed thing to love on earth as we hope to love in Heaven, and to begin that friendship here which is to endure for ever there.
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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.
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Those who pray from the heart do not think about the prayer they are saying, but about the God to whom they pray.
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Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.
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Humility consists in not esteeming ourselves above other men, and in not seeking to be esteemed above them.
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