Francis de Sales Short Quotes

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Have patience with every one, but especially with yourself.

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

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

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Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

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

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One single day of devotion is worth more than a thousand years of worldly life.

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

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Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily.

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Humility makes our lives acceptable to God, meekness makes us acceptable to men.

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

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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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Though perseverance does not come from our power, yet it comes from within our power.

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

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Charity and devotion differ no more, the one from the other, than the flame from the fire.

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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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Many would be willing to have afflictions provided that they not be inconvenienced by them.

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It has been well said, that heart speaks to heart, whereas language only speaks to the ears.

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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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It has been said in vain, but heart speaks to heart, whereas language only speaks to the ears.

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Big fires flare up in a wind, but little ones are blown out unless they are carried in under cover.

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There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love—every man works his oar voluntarily!

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Because zeal is an ardent and vehement love, it requires guidance; otherwise it can become excessive.

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He who can preserve gentleness amid pains, and peace amid worry multitude of affairs, is almost perfect.

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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.

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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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When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

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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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We may be excused for not always being bright, but we are not excused for not being gracious, yielding and considerate.

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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.

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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.

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