For every great temptation there will be many small ones. Wolves and bears are more dangerous than flies, but we are bothered most by flies.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESFlowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.
More St Francis De Sales Quotes
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Be who you are and do that well.
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To live according to the spirit is to love according to the spirit.
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Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
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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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Take care of your health, that it may serve you to serve God.
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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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Fear is a greater evil than evil itself.
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It is to those who have the most need of us that we ought to show our love more especially.
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All the science of the Saints is included in these two things: To do, and to suffer. And whoever had done these two things best, has made himself most saintly.
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Friendship requires great communication.
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Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily.
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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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Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.
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Nothing appeases an enraged elephant so much as the sight of a little lamb.
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