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Let God be the air in which your heart breathes at ease.
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
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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
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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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Nothing appeases an enraged elephant so much as the sight of a little lamb.
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Friendship requires great communication.
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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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Faith fills a man with love for the beauty of its truth, with faith in the truth of its beauty
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If after all your efforts you cannot succeed, you could not please our Lord more than by sacrificing to Him your will, and remaining in tranquility, humility, and devotion, entirely conformed and submissive to His divine will and good pleasure.
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True humility scarcely ever utters words of humility.
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When charity requires it we must freely and mildly communicate to our neighbor not only what is his instruction, but also what is profitable for his consolation.
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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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He who stays not in his littleness, loses his greatness.
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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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There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!
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Those who commit these types of scandals are guility of the spiritual equivalent of murder, but I, here among you to prevent something far worst for you. While those who give scandal are guilty of the spiritual equivalent of murder, those who take scandal- who allow scandals to destroy faith- are guilty of spiritual suicide.
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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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During the night we must wait for the light.
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God will either shield you from suffering or give you unfailing strength to bear it.
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Many who confess their venial sins out of custom and concern for order but without thought of amendment remain burdened with them for their whole life and thus lose many spiritual benefits and advantages.
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The greatest method of praying is to pray the Rosary.
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We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.
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Many would be willing to have afflictions provided that they not be inconvenienced by them.
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