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

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Inspirational, Patience, Patient Person

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

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Letting Go, Healing, Heart

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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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• Every morning prepare your soul for a tranquil day.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Morning, Catholic, Soul

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• The enemy often tries to make us attempt and start many projects so that we will be overwhelmed with too many tasks, and therefore achieve nothing and leave everything unfinished. Sometimes he even suggests the wish to undertake some excellent work that he foresees we will never accomplish. This is to distract us from the prosecution of some less excellent work that we would have easily completed. He does not care how many plans and beginnings we make, provided nothing is finished.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Excellent Work, Enemy, Wish

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

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Catholic, Rosary, Saint

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• Cook the truth in charity until it tastes sweet.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Sweet, Charity, Taste

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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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• 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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• You learn to love by loving.

  Saint Francis de Sales

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Spiritual, Fall, New Beginnings

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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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