Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESHumility consists in not esteeming ourselves above other men, and in not seeking to be esteemed above them.
More St Francis De Sales Quotes
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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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Let God be the air in which your heart breathes at ease.
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The greatest method of praying is to pray the Rosary.
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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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Every Christian needs a half-hour of prayer each day, except when he is busy, then he needs an hour.
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He who complains, sins.
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One single day of devotion is worth more than a thousand years of worldly life.
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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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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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Be who you are and do that well.
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Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
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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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When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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There is nothing as strong as tenderness, And nothing as tender as true strength.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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