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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

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Patience Yourself
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.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Construction Fall Gentle Human Mindset Resistance Side Soft
There is nothing small in the service of God.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

God Service Small Value
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Gentle Reality Strength Strong
Humor is the foundation of reconciliation.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Foundation Humor
Pride dies 20 minutes after death.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Death One Liner Pride
Take care of your health, that it may serve you to serve God.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Care God Health Service
Let God be the air in which your heart breathes at ease.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Breathe Easy God Heart
A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Better Charity Silence Truth
A 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 SALES

God Head Heart Memories Ourselves Repeat Word
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
Many who confess their venial sins out of custom and concern for order but without thought of amendment remain burdened with them for their whole life and thus lose many spiritual benefits and advantages.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Advantage Confession Life Order Spiritual
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 SALES

Care God Heart See Start Strive Yourself
Work hard every day at increasing your purity of heart, which consists in appraising things and weighing them in the balance of God’s will.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Balance God Hard Heart Purity Willing Work
You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Attraction Choice Yourself
Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES

Anxiety Doubt Meditation Peace

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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