Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESHave patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESFriendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESThe Lord delights in every little step you take.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESHe who complains, sins.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESA 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.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESIt matters little how one begins, provided that he be resolved to go on well, and to end well.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESWhen you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESEvery Christian needs a half-hour of prayer each day, except when he is busy, then he needs an hour.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESLet God be the air in which your heart breathes at ease.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESBe patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESYou 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.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESGod will either shield you from suffering or give you unfailing strength to bear it.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESBy giving yourself to God, You not only receive Himself in exchange, but eternal life as well.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESIt is a great imperfection to complain unceasingly of little things.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESWe 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.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESNothing appeases an enraged elephant so much as the sight of a little lamb.
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