Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESIt is to those who have the most need of us that we ought to show our love more especially.
More St Francis De Sales Quotes
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To live according to the spirit is to love according to the spirit.
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In everything, love simplicity.
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God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.
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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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The whole world is not worth one soul.
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All of us can attain to Christian virtue and holiness, no matter in what condition of life we live and no matter what our life work may be.
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Take care of your health, that it may serve you to serve 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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God takes pleasure to see you take your little steps; and like a good father who holds his child by the hand, He will accommodate His steps to yours and will be content to go no faster than you. Why do you worry?
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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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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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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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When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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Nothing appeases an enraged elephant so much as the sight of a little lamb.
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Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean do not be disheartened by your imperfections, but always rise up with fresh courage.
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