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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Be who you are and be that well.

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  Be Who You Are, Wells, Who You Are

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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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• Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

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• The Prayer of the sick person is his patience and his acceptance of his sickness for the love of Jesus Christ. Make sickness itself a prayer, for there is none more powerful, save martyrdom!

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Jesus, Prayer, Powerful

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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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• The state of marriage is one that requires more virtue and constancy than any other; it is a perpetual exercise in mortification.

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  Exercise, Saint, Serving Others

  Saint Francis de Sales, Aeterna Press (2015). “Letters to Persons in the World”, p.24, Aeterna Press

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• Let God be the air in which your heart breathes at ease.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Letting Go, Healing, Heart

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

  Saint Francis de Sales

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

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  Inspirational, Strength, Inspiring

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• God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.

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  Workmen, Persons, Despised

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• If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently... And even if you did nothing during the whole of your hour but bring your heart back, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Heart, Mindfulness, Would Be

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• Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean do not be disheartened by your imperfections, but always rise up with fresh courage. How are we to be patient in dealing with our neighbour's faults if we are impatient in dealing with our own? He who is fretted by his own failings will not correct them. All profitable correction comes from a calm and peaceful mind.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Courage, Mean, Imperfection

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