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Saint Francis De Sales Inspirational Quotes (119)

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Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.
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You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar.
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Don't get upset with your imperfections. Surrender to the Power of God's Love, which is greater than our weakness.
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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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Be who you are and be that well.
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In everything, love simplicity.
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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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Have patience with all things - but first with yourself. Never confuse your mistakes with your value as a human being. You are perfectly valuable, creative, worthwhile person simply because you exist. And no amount of triumphs or tribulations can ever change that.
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Every vocation becomes more agreeable when united with devotion.
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Do not be ashamed of being poor, or of asking alms. Receive what is given you with humility, and accept a refusal meekly. Frequently call to mind Our Lady's journey into Egypt with her Holy Child, and of all the poverty, contempt and suffering they endured. If you follow their example you will indeed be rich amid your poverty.
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Don't get upset with your imperfections. It's a great mistake because it leads nowhere - to get angry because you are angry, upset at being upset, depressed at being depressed, disappointed because you are disappointed. So don't fool yourself. Simply surrender to the Power of God's Love, which is always greater than our weakness.
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Hell is full of good intentions and wills.
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Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.
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One rarely does well what one rarely does.
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You learn to love by loving.
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He who stays not in his littleness, loses his greatness.
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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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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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Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.
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It is a great imperfection to complain unceasingly of little things.
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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.
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True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
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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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