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• Provided that God be glorified, we must not care by whom.

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  Humility, Care

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Spiritual Conferences”, p.143, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Every vocation becomes more agreeable when united with devotion.

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  Devotion, Vocation, United

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• Better make penitents by gentleness than hypocrites by severity.

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  Hypocrite, Severity, Gentleness

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• Consider all the past as nothing, and say, like David: Now I begin to love my God.

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  Past, Saint

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• There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity.

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  Writing, Editing, Simplicity

  Saint Francis de Sales, Aeterna Press (2015). “The Spiritual Maxims of Saint Francis de Sales”, Aeterna Press

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• We are sometimes so busy being good angels that we neglect to be good men and women.

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  Angel, Men, Good Man

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• Do not scrutinize so closely whether you are doing much or little, ill or well, so long as what you do is not sinful and that you are heartily seeking to do everything for God. Try as far as you can to do everything well, but when it is done, do not think about it. Try, rather, to think of what is to be done next. Go on simply in the Lord's way, and do not torment yourself. We ought to hate our faults, but with a quiet, calm hatred; not pettishly and anxiously.

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  Hate, Thinking, Long

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• The spirit cannot endure the body when overfed, but, if underfed, the body cannot endure the spirit.

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  Food, Cooking, Healthy

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• A dance is the devil's procession, and he that entereth into a dance, entereth into his possession.

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  Dance, Dancing, Devil

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• Obedience is a virtue of so excellent a nature, that Our Lord was pleased to mark its observance upon the whole course of His life; thus He often says, He did not come to do His Own will, but that of His Heavenly Father.

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  Father, Virtue, Lord

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• Lately I was near the beehives and some of the bees flew onto my face. I wanted to raise my hand, and brush them off. 'No,' said a peasant to me, 'do not be afraid, and do not touch them. They will not sting you at all, if you touch them they will bite you.' I trusted him; not one bit me. Trust me; do not fear these temptations. Do not touch them; they will not hurt you.

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  Hurt, Hands, Temptation

  Saint Francis (de Sales) (1995). “Thy Will be Done: Letters to Persons in the World”, p.216, Sophia Institute Press

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• I see crosses at every turn. My flesh shudders over it, but my heart adores them. Yes, I hail you, crosses little and great, I hail you, and kiss your feet, unworthy of the honor of your shadow.

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  Heart, Kissing, Feet

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• Mount Calvary is the academy of love.

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  Saint, Calvary, Passion Of The Christ

  Saint Francis de Sales, Aeterna Press (1962*). “Treatise on the Love of God”, p.513, Aeterna Press

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• I recommend to you holy simplicity.

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  Simple, Simplicity, Holy

  Saint Francis de Sales, Aeterna Press (2015). “The Spiritual Maxims of Saint Francis de Sales”, Aeterna Press

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• Souls do not wish to be bullied, but gently brought back; such is the nature of man.

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  Men, Catholic, Soul

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• If I want only pure water, what does it matter to me whether it be brought in a vase of gold or of glass? What is it to me whether the will of God be presented to me in tribulation or consolation, since I desire and seek only the Divine will?

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  Glasses, Water, Desire

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• A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• O my child, bethink you that just as the bee, having gathered heaven's dew and earth's sweetest juices from amid the flowers, carries it to her hive; so the Priest, having taken the Saviour, God's Own Son, Who came down from Heaven, the Son of Mary, Who sprang up as earth's choicest flower, from the Altar, feeds you with that Bread of Sweetness and of all delight.

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  Children, Flower, Taken

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.173, Catholic Way Publishing

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• The elephant, not only the largest but the most intelligent of animals, provides us with an excellent example. It is faithful and tenderly loving to the female of its choice, mating only every third year and then for no more than five days, and so secretly as never to be seen, until, on the sixth day, it appears and goes at once to wash its whole body in the river, unwilling to return to the herd until thus purified. Such good and modest habits are an example to husband and wife.

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  Husband, Animal, Intelligent

  "Introduction to the Devout Life". Book by Saint Francis de Sales, 1609.

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• Nothing appeases an enraged elephant so much as the sight of a little lamb.

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  Sight, Elephants, Lambs

  Saint Francis (de Sales) (1953). “Spiritual maxims”

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• God requires a faithful fulfillment of the merest trifle given us to do, rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to which we are not called.

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  Time, Faithful, Given

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• The damned are in the abyss of Hell, as within a woeful city, where they suffer unspeakable torments, in all their senses and members, because as they have employed all their senses and their members in sinning, so shall they suffer in each of them the punishment due to sin.

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  Punishment, Cities, Suffering

  "Introduction to the Devout Life". Book by Saint Francis de Sales, Pt. 2, ch. 15, 1609.

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• Faith fills a man with love for the beauty of its truth, with faith in the truth of its beauty

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  Faith, Men

  Saint Francis (de Sales) (1962). “The love of God, a treatise”

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• Let us be what God likes, so long as we are His, and let us not be what we want to be, if it is against his intention.

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  Long, Want, Likes

  Saint Francis (de Sales) (1995). “Thy Will be Done: Letters to Persons in the World”, p.22, Sophia Institute Press

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• A spoon full of honey gets more flies than a barrel full of vinegar.

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  Spoons, Honey, Vinegar

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