Those who pray from the heart do not think about the prayer they are saying, but about the God to whom they pray.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESWhere there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
More St Francis De Sales Quotes
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Take care of your health, that it may serve you to serve God.
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It is a great imperfection to complain unceasingly of little things.
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Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.
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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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Let God be the air in which your heart breathes at ease.
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Every vocation becomes more agreeable when united with devotion.
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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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He who can preserve gentleness amid pains, and peace amid worry multitude of affairs, is almost perfect.
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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.
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Pride dies 20 minutes after death.
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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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Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
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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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You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar.
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There is no better means of attainment to the spiritual life Than by continually beginning again.
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