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In everything, love simplicity.
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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Love
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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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It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.
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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
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It is wonderful how attractive a gentle, pleasant manner is, and how much it wins hearts.
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To lose ourselves in God is simply to give up our own will to Him. When a soul can truly say Lord I have no other will than Thine it is truly lost in God and united to Him.
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Since God often sends us inspirations by means of His angels, we should frequently return our aspirations to him by means of the same messengers.
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He who stays not in his littleness, loses his greatness.
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Let God be the air in which your heart breathes at ease.
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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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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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Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.
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Fear is a greater evil than evil itself.
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Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great.
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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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Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.
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The greatest method of praying is to pray the Rosary.
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He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying.
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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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When the bee has gathered the dew of heaven and the earth's sweetest nectar from the flowers, it turns it into honey, then hastens to its hive. In the same way, the priest, having taken from the altar the Son of God (who is as the dew from heaven, and true son of Mary, flower of our humanity), gives him to you as delicious food.
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Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.
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