Saint Francis de Sales Quotes

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• Have patience with all things - but first with yourself. Never confuse your mistakes with your value as a human being. You are perfectly valuable, creative, worthwhile person simply because you exist. And no amount of triumphs or tribulations can ever change that.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Mistake, Creative, Triumph

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• Do not look forward to what may happen tomorrow; the same everlasting Father who cares for you today will take care of you tomorrow and every day. Either He will shield you from suffering, or He will give you unfailing strength to bear it. Be at peace, then, put aside all anxious thoughts and imaginations, and say continually: 'The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart has trusted in Him and I am helped. He is not only with me but in me and I in Him.'

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Father, Heart, Anxious Thoughts

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• What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Ocean, Understanding, Saint

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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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  Evil, Worry, Anxiety

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• Do everything calmly and peacefully. Do as much as you can as well as you can. Strive to see God in all things without exception, and consent to His will joyously. Do everything for God, uniting yourself to him in word and deed. Walk very simply with the Cross of the Lord and be at peace with yourself.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Faith, Inspiration, Catholic

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• Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily.

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  Littles, Serving God, Christian Service

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.295, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Meditation, Essentials, Each Day

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• Faith is like a bright ray of sun light. It enables us to see God in all things as well as all things in God.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Light, Sun, Rays

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• Don't get upset with your imperfections. It's a great mistake because it leads nowhere - to get angry because you are angry, upset at being upset, depressed at being depressed, disappointed because you are disappointed. So don't fool yourself. Simply surrender to the Power of God's Love, which is always greater than our weakness.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Faith, Mistake, Inspiration

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• Do not look forward to the changes and chances of this life in fear; rather look to them with full hope that, as they arise, God, whose you are, will deliver you out of them. He is your keeper. He has kept you hitherto. Do you but hold fast to his dear hand, and he will lead you safely through all things; and, when you cannot stand, he will bear you in his arms. Do not look forward to what may happen tomorrow. Our Father will either shield you from suffering, or he will give you strength to bear it.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Hope, Father, Hands

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• Be who you are and be that well.

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  Be Who You Are, Wells, Who You Are

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• Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Spiritual, Peace, Upset

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• I have made a pact with my tongue, not to speak when my heart is disturbed.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Heart, Tongue, Speak

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• Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean, do not be disturbed because of your imperfections, and always rise up bravely from a fall. I am glad that you make a daily new beginning; there is no better means of progress in the spiritual life than to be continually beginning afresh, and never to think that we have done enough.

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  Spiritual, Fall, New Beginnings

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• Let the enemy rage at the gate; let him knock, pound, scream, howl; let him do his worst. We know for certain that he cannot enter our soul except by the door of our consent.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Doors, Soul, Enemy

  Saint Francis (de Sales), Saint Jeanne-Françoise de Chantal, Wendy M. Wright, Joseph F. Power (1988). “Francis de Sales, Jane de Chantal: letters of spiritual direction”

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• Go in all simplicity; do not be anxious to win a quiet mind, and it will be all the quieter. Do not examine so closely into the progress of your soul. Do not crave too much to be perfect, but let your spiritual life beformed by your duties, and by the actions which are called forth by circumstances.

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  Spiritual, Winning, Perfect

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• Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Inspirational, Strength, Inspiring

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• Those who pray from the heart do not think about the prayer they are saying, but about the God to whom they pray.

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  Prayer, Heart, Thinking

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• It is not those who commit the least faults who are the most holy, but those who have the greatest courage, the greatest generosity, the greatest love, who make the boldest efforts to overcome themselves, and are not immediately apprehensive about tripping.

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  Courage, Generosity, Effort

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.2584, Catholic Way Publishing

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• There is nothing small in the service of God.

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  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.3895, Catholic Way Publishing

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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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  Spiritual, Way, Should

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• Without a doubt, one of the things which keeps us from attaining perfection is our tongue. When one has reached the point of no longer committing faults in speech, he has surely reached perfection, as was said by the Holy Spirit. The worst defect in talking is talking too much. Hence, in speech be brief and virtuous, brief and gentle, brief and simple, brief and charitable, brief and amiable.

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  Simple, Attachment, Talking

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Today, Tomorrow

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• Every morning prepare your soul for a tranquil day.

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  Morning, Catholic, Soul

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• Whatever happens, abide steadfast in a determination to cling simply to God.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Determination, Steadfast, Whatever Happens

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