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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Take care of your health, that it may serve you to serve God.
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Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
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We may be excused for not always being bright, but we are not excused for not being gracious, yielding and considerate.
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Every vocation becomes more agreeable when united with devotion.
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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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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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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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The whole world is not worth one soul.
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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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During the night we must wait for the light.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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A heart-memory is better than a mere head-memory. Better to carry away a little of the love of Christ in our souls, than if we were able to repeat every word of every sermon we ever heard.
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Pride dies 20 minutes after death.
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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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One rarely does well what one rarely does.
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