It is to those who have the most need of us that we ought to show our love more especially.
ST FRANCIS DE SALESThe whole world is not worth one soul.
More St Francis De Sales Quotes
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It matters little how one begins, provided that he be resolved to go on well, and to end well.
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The greatest method of praying is to pray the Rosary.
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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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You learn to love by loving.
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One rarely does well what one rarely does.
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Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.
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There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity.
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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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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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All the science of the Saints is included in these two things: To do, and to suffer. And whoever had done these two things best, has made himself most saintly.
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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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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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Let God be the air in which your heart breathes at ease.
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You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar.
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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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