Francis de Sales Quotes

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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?

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

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

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In so far as divine love beautifies our souls. And makes us pleasing to His divine Majesty, it is called grace; in so far as it gives us strength to do good, it is called charity; but when it reaches such a degree of perfection, that it makes us not only do the good, but do so carefully, frequently and readily, then it is called devotion.

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Do not fret under such assistance as is needful; therein lies one great grace of poverty. It were overambitious to aim at being poor without suffering any inconvenience, in other words, to have the credit of poverty and the convenience of riches.

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

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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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We can never attain to perfection while we have an affection for any imperfection.

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

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