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Trouble that is easily recognized is half-cured.
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
Writer
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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Trouble
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Make yourself familiar with the angels and behold them frequently in spirit for without being seen, they are present with you.
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In everything, love simplicity.
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While extremely sensitive as to the slightest approach to slander, you must also guard against an extreme into which some people fall, who, in their desire to speak evil of no one, actually uphold and speak well of vice.
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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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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar.
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Have Jesus always for your patron, His Cross for a mast on which you must spread your resolutions as a sail. Your anchor shall be a profound confidence in Him, and you shall sail prosperously.
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I recommend to you holy simplicity.
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Go in all simplicity do not be anxious to win a quiet mind, and it will be all the quieter. Do not examine so closely into the progress of your soul. Do not crave too much to be perfect, but let your spiritual life beformed by your duties, and by the actions which are called forth by circumstances.
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Let us think only of spending the present day well. Then when tomorrow shall have come, it will be called today, and then we will think about it.
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True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
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Faith is like a bright ray of sun light. It enables us to see God in all things as well as all things in God.
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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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I have made a pact with my tongue, not to speak when my heart is disturbed.
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To be pleased at correction and reproofs shows that one loves the virtues which are contrary to those faults for which he is corrected and reproved. And, therefore, it is a great sign of advancement in perfection.
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Oh what remorse we shall feel at the end of our lives, when we look back upon the great number of instructions and examples afforded by God and the Saints for our perfection, and so carelessly received by us! If this end were to come to you today, how would you be pleased with the life you have led this year?
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Fear is a greater evil than evil itself.
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Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily.
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God will either shield you from suffering or give you unfailing strength to bear it.
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