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There is nothing small in the service of God.

St Francis De Sales

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
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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Angry Artificial Gentle Glow Humility Nature Proud Reality
A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Better Charity Silence Truth
Pride dies 20 minutes after death.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Death One Liner Pride
Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Anxiety Doubt Meditation Peace
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 SALES

Anxiety Command Evil Exception God Greatness Prayer Worry Yourself
Cook the truth in charity until it tastes sweet.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Charity Cook Sweet Taste Truth
Let God be the air in which your heart breathes at ease.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Breathe Easy God Heart
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
Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Fly Patience Walk Wings Yourself
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
Half an hour’s meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Busy Day Exception Meditation Need
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.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Advantage Confession Life Order Spiritual
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.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Learning Love Ourselves Study Talk Thinking
We may be excused for not always being bright, but we are not excused for not being gracious, yielding and considerate.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Bright Grace Ourselves
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.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Give Up God Lose Ourselves Soul True Unity

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