Every morning prepare your soul for a tranquil day.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESDuring the night we must wait for the light.
More St Francis De Sales Quotes
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Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.
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Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
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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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We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.
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Never be hurried in anything. Do all things calmly and in a spirit of repose. Do not lose your inward peace even if everything seems to be going wrong. What is anything in life compared to peace of soul?
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Many who confess their venial sins out of custom and concern for order but without thought of amendment remain burdened with them for their whole life and thus lose many spiritual benefits and advantages.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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It matters little how one begins, provided that he be resolved to go on well, and to end well.
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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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Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.
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Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
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There is nothing small in the service of God.
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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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One rarely does well what one rarely does.
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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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Be who you are and do that well.
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In everything, love simplicity.
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It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.
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Half an hour’s meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.
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When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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Let God be the air in which your heart breathes at ease.
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Every moment comes to us pregnant with a command from God, only to pass on and plunge into eternity, there to remain forever what we have made of it.
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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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We must fear God out of love, not love Him out of fear.
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He who complains, sins.
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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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