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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?

St Francis De Sales

Be who you are and do that well.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Be Yourself Original Self Love
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.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Confidence God Prosperity Resolution Yourself
There is no better means of attainment to the spiritual life Than by continually beginning again.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Beginning Better Spiritual
Every Christian needs a half-hour of prayer each day, except when he is busy, then he needs an hour.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Busy Exception Himself Need Prayer
Every moment comes to us pregnant with a command from God, only to pass on and plunge into eternity, there to remain forever what we have made of it.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Command Forever God Moments Pregnant
It matters little how one begins, provided that he be resolved to go on well, and to end well.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Beginning End Himself Move On
It is a great imperfection to complain unceasingly of little things.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Complaint Greatness Imperfection
By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Beginning Eyes God Meditation Presence Soul
There is nothing as strong as tenderness, And nothing as tender as true strength.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Soft Strength Strong True
Let us think only of spending the present day well. Then when tomorrow shall have come, it will be called today, and then we will think about it.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Come Future Present Thinking
Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Desire God Great Strong
Never be hurried in anything. Do all things calmly and in a spirit of repose. Do not lose your inward peace even if everything seems to be going wrong. What is anything in life compared to peace of soul?
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Calm Compare Hurry Lose Peace Soul Spirit
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Contradict Difficult Gentle Time
One single day of devotion is worth more than a thousand years of worldly life.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Devotion Life World Worth
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.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Angry Artificial Gentle Glow Humility Nature Proud Reality
Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Beginning Break Friendship

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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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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