Strive to see God in all things without exception. Do not smother yourself…If you start smothering yourself with a host of cares and longings and wishes … you will be disabling yourself from serving God with all your heart.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESThe whole world is not worth one soul.
More St Francis De Sales Quotes
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Be who you are and be that well.
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There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity.
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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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There is no better means of attainment to the spiritual life Than by continually beginning again.
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Half an hour’s meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.
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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
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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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Cook the truth in charity until it tastes sweet.
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Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.
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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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Pride dies 20 minutes after death.
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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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You learn to love by loving.
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One single day of devotion is worth more than a thousand years of worldly life.
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Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.
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