Saint Francis de Sales Quotes - Page 2

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• The greatest method of praying is to pray the Rosary.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Catholic, Rosary, Saint

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

  Saint Francis de Sales

  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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• Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Inspiration, Meditation Practice, Restless Mind

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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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• He who complains, sins.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Complaining, Sin

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.4584, Catholic Way Publishing

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

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Workmen, Persons, Despised

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• The highest degree of meekness consists in seeing, serving, honoring, and treating amiably, on occasion, those who are not to our taste, and who show themselves unfriendly, ungrateful, and troublesome to us.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Ungrateful, Taste, Degrees

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

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Letting Go, Healing, Heart

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• We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Evil, Choices, Abuse

  Saint Francis de Sales, Aeterna Press (1962*). “Treatise on the Love of God”, p.510, Aeterna Press

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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.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Running, Art, Love Is

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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?

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Children, Father, Hands

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• It is to those who have the most need of us that we ought to show our love more especially.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Saint, Needs, Our Love

  Saint Francis de Sales, Aeterna Press (1892*). “The Spiritual Conferences”, p.87, Aeterna Press

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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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• The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not "What a lovely sermon!" but "I will do something."

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Inspirational, Life, Christian

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• Be not miserable about what may happen tomorrow. The same everlasting Father, who cares for you today, will care for you tomorrow.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Father, Care, May

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• Don't get upset with your imperfections. Surrender to the Power of God's Love, which is greater than our weakness.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Imperfection, Upset, Weakness

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• You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Kindness, Generosity, Sugar

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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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• We shall steer safely through every storm, so long as our heart is right, our intention fervent, our courage steadfast, and our trust fixed on God. If at times we are somewhat stunned by the tempest, never fear. Let us take breath, and go on afresh.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Trust, Heart, Long

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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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• 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?

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Soul, Inward, Spirit

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