Saint Francis de Sales Quotes - Page 3

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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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• 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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• Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

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  Inspirational, Life And Love, Self Esteem

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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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• God will either shield you from suffering or give you unfailing strength to bear it.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Giving, Suffering, Shields

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• We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Appreciation, Should, Workmen

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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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• For every great temptation there will be many small ones. Wolves and bears are more dangerous than flies, but we are bothered most by flies.

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  Temptation, Bears, Dangerous

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• To lose ourselves in God is simply to give up our own will to Him. When a soul can truly say Lord I have no other will than Thine it is truly lost in God and united to Him.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Giving Up, Soul, Lord

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• Fear is a greater evil than evil itself.

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  Fear, Evil, Greater

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• It matters little how one begins, provided that he be resolved to go on well, and to end well.

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  Goes On, Littles, Matter

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• True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouragement

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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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• A heart-memory is better than a mere head-memory. Better to carry away a little of the love of Christ in our souls, than if we were able to repeat every word of every sermon we ever heard.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Memories, Heart, Soul

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 373, 1895.

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• One rarely does well what one rarely does.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Doe, Wells

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• Make yourself familiar with the angels and behold them frequently in spirit; for without being seen, they are present with you.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Losing A Loved One, Angel, Saint

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• Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew.

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  Inspirational, Depression, Patience

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• We do not very often come across opportunities for exercising strength, magnanimity, or magnificence; but gentleness, temperance, modesty, and humility, are graces which ought to colour everything we do. There may be virtues of a more exalted mould, but... these are the most continually called for in daily life.

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  Humility, Exercise, Opportunity

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.177, Catholic Way Publishing

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• 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 by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.

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  Love, Education, Running

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• We must fear God out of love, not love Him out of fear.

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  Saint, Fear God

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• Professions of humility are the very cream, the very essence of pride; the really humble person wishes to be, and not to appear so. Humility is timorous, and starts at her shadow; and so delicate that if she hears her name pronounced it endangers her existence.

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  Humble, Humility, Pride

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• One great remedy against all manner of temptation, great or small, is to open the heart and lay bare its suggestion, likings, and dislikings before some spiritual adviser; for, . . . the first condition which the Evil One makes with a soul, when he wants to entrap it, is silence.

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  Spiritual, Heart, Evil

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• Humor is the foundation of reconciliation.

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  Foundation, Theologian, Reconciliation

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• Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

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  Patience, Love Yourself, Recovery

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

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  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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