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.

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  Ocean, Understanding, Saint

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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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  Meditation, Essentials, Each Day

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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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• 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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• 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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• Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Evil, Worry, Anxiety

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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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• Don't sow your desires in someone else's garden; just cultivate your own as best you can; don't long to be other than what you are, but desire to be thoroughly what you are. Direct your thoughts to being very good at that and to bearing the crosses, little or great, that you will find there. Believe me, this is the most important and least understood point to the spiritual life. We all love according to what is our taste; few people like what is according to their duty or to God's liking. What is the use of building castles in Spain when we have to live in France?

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Faith, Spiritual, Believe

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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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• 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.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  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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• Be who you are and be that well.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Be Who You Are, Wells, Who You Are

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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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• Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Inspirational, Compassion, Patient

  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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• Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Wings, Steps, Having Patience

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• There are many who want me to tell them of secret ways of becoming perfect and I can only tell them that the sole secret is a hearty love of God, and the only way of attaining that love is by loving. You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so you learn to love God and man by loving. Begin as a mere apprentice and the very power of love will lead you on to become a master of the art.

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  Running, Art, Love Is

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• Humor is the foundation of reconciliation.

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  Foundation, Theologian, Reconciliation

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

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  Heart, Tongue, Speak

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• A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity.

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  Silence, Charity, Silence Is

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.27, Catholic Way Publishing

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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.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Blessed, Heaven, Earth

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.243, Catholic Way Publishing

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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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• 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.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Thinking, Today, Tomorrow

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• Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Inspirational, Patience, Patient Person

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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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  Encouragement, Trying, Encounters

  Saint Francis (de Sales) (1953). “Spiritual maxims”

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