Saint Francis de Sales Quotes - Page 5

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• While extremely sensitive as to the slightest approach to slander, you must also guard against an extreme into which some people fall, who, in their desire to speak evil of no one, actually uphold and speak well of vice.

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  Fall, People, Evil

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.279, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Humility consists in not esteeming ourselves above other men, and in not seeking to be esteemed above them.

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  Humility, Men, Seeking

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.380, Catholic Way Publishing

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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

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  Healing, Mean, Imperfection

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• Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.

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  Spiritual, Angel, Soul

  "Introduction to the Devout Life". Book by Francis de Sales, Pt. 2, ch. 16, 1609.

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• One of the most evil dispositions possible is that which satirizes and turns everything to ridicule. God abhors this vice, and has sometimes punished it in a marked manner

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  Evil, Vices, Sometimes

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “Introduction to the Devout Life”, p.248, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Strive to see God in all things without exception. Do not smother yourself...If you start smothering yourself with a host of cares and longings and wishes ... you will be disabling yourself from serving God with all your heart.

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  Heart, Wish, Care

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• Take care of your health, that it may serve you to serve God.

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  Health, Care, May

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.3704, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Go to your confessor; open your heart to him; display to him all the recesses of your soul; take the advice that he will give you with the utmost humility and simplicity. For God, Who has an infinite love for obedience, frequently renders profitable the counsels we take from others, but especially from those who are the guides of our souls.

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  Humility, Heart, Giving

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• Be who you are and do that well.

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  Be Who You Are, Wells, Who You Are

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• To be pleased at correction and reproofs shows that one loves the virtues which are contrary to those faults for which he is corrected and reproved. And, therefore, it is a great sign of advancement in perfection.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Faith, Inspiration, Perfection

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• The whole world is not worth one soul.

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  Soul, World, Whole

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “Introduction to the Devout Life”, p.389, Catholic Way Publishing

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• If, when stung by slander or ill-nature, we wax proud and swell with anger, it is a proof that our gentleness and humility are unreal, and mere artificial show.

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  Humility, Pride, Proud

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.208, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Many who confess their venial sins out of custom and concern for order but without thought of amendment remain burdened with them for their whole life and thus lose many spiritual benefits and advantages.

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  Spiritual, Order, Catholic

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• It is a great imperfection to complain unceasingly of little things.

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  Imperfection, Complaining, Littles

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• It is wonderful how attractive a gentle, pleasant manner is, and how much it wins hearts.

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  Heart, Winning, Wonderful

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “Introduction to the Devout Life”, p.244, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Have Jesus always for your patron, His Cross for a mast on which you must spread your resolutions as a sail. Your anchor shall be a profound confidence in Him, and you shall sail prosperously.

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  Jesus, Anchors, Profound

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.3282, Catholic Way Publishing

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• To live according to the spirit is to love according to the spirit.

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  Spirit

  Saint Francis de Sales, Aeterna Press (1888). “Letters to Persons in Religion”, p.347, Aeterna Press

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• Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.

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  Flower, Garden, Perspective

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• He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying.

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  Doe, Praying, Wells

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• Let is walk ... joyously, dear souls, among the difficulties of this passing life ... These pains will have an end when our life ends, after which there will be only joy, only contentment, only eternal consolation.

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  Pain, Joy, Soul

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• The highest point of humility consists in not merely acknowledging one's abjection, but in taking pleasure therein, not from any want of breadth or courage, but to give the more glory to God's Divine Majesty, and to esteem one's neighbour more highly than one's self.

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  Humility, Self, Giving

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.200, Catholic Way Publishing

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• If you have to do with one who is unquestionably a slanderer, do not excuse him by calling him frank and free-spoken; do not call one who is notoriously vain, liberal and elegant; do not call dangerous levities mere simplicity; do not screen disobedience under the name of zeal; or arrogance, of frankness; or evil intimacy, of friendship. No, my friends, we must never, in our wish to shun slander, foster or flatter vice in others: but we must call evil evil, and sin sin, and so doing we shall serve God's glory.

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  Names, Evil, Simplicity

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.279, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Let us run to Mary, and, as her little children, cast ourselves into her arms with a perfect confidence.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Running, Religious, Children

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• Hell is full of good intentions and wills.

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  Good Intentions, Hell, Intention

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• It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal times or worse to dwell on it afterwards, to discuss it and wallow in the remembered pleasures of every mouthful. Those whose minds dwell before dinner on the spit, and after on the dishes, are fit only to be scullions.

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  Time, Mean, Mind

  "Introduction to the Devout Life". Book by Saint Francis de Sales, Pt. 3, ch. 39, 1609.

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