Cook the truth in charity until it tastes sweet.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESAnxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.
More St Francis De Sales Quotes
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Be who you are and do that well.
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Those who pray from the heart do not think about the prayer they are saying, but about the God to whom they pray.
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Faith is like a bright ray of sun light. It enables us to see God in all things as well as all things in God.
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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.
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There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity.
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Let the enemy rage at the gate; let him knock, pound, scream, howl; let him do his worst. We know for certain that he cannot enter our soul except by the door of our consent.
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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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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
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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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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.
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Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
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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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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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While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.
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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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