One rarely does well what one rarely does.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESNothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
More St Francis De Sales Quotes
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Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.
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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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The Lord delights in every little step you take.
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Pride dies 20 minutes after death.
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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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Let God be the air in which your heart breathes at ease.
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We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.
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A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity.
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It is right that you should begin again every day. There is no better way to complete the spiritual life than to be ever beginning it over again.
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Fear is a greater evil than evil itself.
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To live according to the spirit is to love according to the spirit.
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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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Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.
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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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