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Every vocation becomes more agreeable when united with devotion.
Saint Francis de Sales
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Saint Francis de Sales
Age: 55 †
Born: 1567
Born: August 26
Died: 1622
Died: December 28
Catholic Priest
Clergyman
Theologian
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Chateau de Thorens
Saint Francis de Sales
St. Francis de Sales
Saint Francis of Sales
Bishop of Geneva
Francçois de Sales
François de Salfes
St. Francis of Sales
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Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily.
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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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Every Christian needs a half-hour of prayer each day, except when he is busy, then he needs an hour.
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By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.
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A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
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Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
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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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People can pass thirty nights in dancing and no one complains about it, but if they watch through a single Christmas night they cough and claim their stomach is upset the next morning. Does anyone fail to see that the world is an unjust judge, gracious and well disposed to its own children but harsh and rigorous towards the children of God?
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Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.
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He who stays not in his littleness, loses his greatness.
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True humility scarcely ever utters words of humility.
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The declared enemies of God and His Church, heretics and schismatics, must be criticized as much as possible, as long as truth is not denied. It is a work of charity to shout: 'Here is the wolf!' when it enters the flock or anywhere else.
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Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
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I have the same opinion of dances that physicians have of mushrooms: the best of them are good for nothing.
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