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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.
— Francis De Sales
We may be excused for not always being bright, but we are not excused for not being gracious, yielding and considerate.
— Saint Francis De Sales
A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
— Saint Francis De Sales
Better make penitents by gentleness than hypocrites by severity.
— Saint Francis De Sales
Little deeds that proceed from charity please God and have their place among meritorious acts.
— Francis De Sales
Do not become upset when difficulty comes your way. Laugh in its face and know that you are in the hands of God.
— Francis De Sales
At St. Francis de Sales in Atlanta, we do not have an organ. We do not have rehearsals during the week. We do not have a professional choir.
— Richard Morris
Every vocation becomes more agreeable when united with devotion.
— Saint Francis De Sales
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.
— Saint Francis De Sales
We must fear God out of love, not love Him out of fear.
— Saint Francis De Sales
There is nothing small in the service of God.
— Saint Francis De Sales
Consider all the past as nothing, and say, like David: Now I begin to love my God.
— Saint Francis De Sales
Grow where you are planted.
— St. Francis De Sales
Those who pray from the heart do not think about the prayer they are saying, but about the God to whom they pray.
— Saint Francis De Sales
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.
— Saint Francis De Sales
It is wonderful how attractive a gentle, pleasant manner is, and how much it wins hearts.
— Francis De Sales
It is to those who have the most need of us that we ought to show our love more especially.
— Saint Francis De Sales
Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.
— Saint Francis De Sales
It is a fact that people are always well aware of what is due them.Unfortunately, they remain oblivious of what they owe to others.
— Francis De Sales
You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar.
— Saint Francis De Sales
We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.
— Saint Francis De Sales
He who complains, sins.
— Saint Francis De Sales
He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying.
— Saint Francis De Sales
Do not wish to be anything except what you are.
— Francis De Sales
Have contempt for contempt.
— Francis De Sales
There is no better means of attainment to the spiritual life Than by continually beginning again ...
— Saint Francis De Sales
I have made a pact with my tongue, not to speak when my heart is disturbed.
— Saint Francis De Sales
Make sickness itself a prayer.
— Saint Francis De Sales
God is merciful to those who want to love Him and who have placed their hopes in Him.
— Francis De Sales
Though perseverance does not come from our power, yet it comes from within our power.
— Saint Francis De Sales
Charity and devotion differ no more, the one from the other, than the flame from the fire.
— Saint Francis De Sales
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
— Francis De Sales
Be who you are and be that well.
— Francis De Sales
It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.
— Saint Francis De Sales
Every moment comes to us pregnant with a command from God, only to pass on and plunge into eternity, there to remain forever what we have made of it.
— Saint Francis De Sales
During the night we must wait for the light.
— Francis De Sales
Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.
— Saint Francis De Sales
Let us be what God likes, so long as we are His, and let us not be what we want to be, if it is against his intention.
— Saint Francis De Sales
The world is passing away.
— Francis De Sales
In everything, love simplicity.
— Saint Francis De Sales
Many would be willing to have afflictions provided that they not be inconvenienced by them.
— Francis De Sales
Provided that God be glorified, we must not care by whom.
— Saint Francis De Sales
We are sometimes so busy being good angels that we neglect to be good men and women.
— Saint Francis De Sales
He will unfailingly be pleased with our patience and take note of our diligence and perseverance.
— Francis De Sales
A man who can own pearls does not bother about shells, and those who aspire to virtue do not trouble themselves over honors.
— Francis De Sales
Let God be the air in which your heart breathes at ease.
— Saint Francis De Sales
The state of marriage is one that requires more virtue and constancy than any other; it is a perpetual exercise in mortification.
— Saint Francis De Sales
Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great.
— Saint Francis De Sales
Be patient, you are in good company. Our Lord Himself, our Lady, the apostles, and countless saints, both men and women, have been poor.
— Francis De Sales
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.
— Saint Francis De Sales
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.
— Saint Francis De Sales
The slow pace of our perfection has to be borne with patience, provided that on our part we always do whatever we can to continue advancing.
— St. Francis De Sales
If He is with me I care not where I go.
— Francis De Sales
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.
— Saint Francis De Sales
Humility consists in not esteeming ourselves above other men, and in not seeking to be esteemed above them.
— Francis De Sales
Take care of your health, that it may serve you to serve God.
— Saint Francis De Sales
Every morning prepare your soul for a tranquil day.
— Saint Francis De Sales
I recommend to you holy simplicity.
— Saint Francis De Sales
When we abandon all to Him, He takes a tender care of us, and His Providence for us is great or small according to the measure of our abandonment.
— Francis De Sales
What son would not bring his mother back to life and would not bring her into paradise after her death if he could?
— Saint Francis De Sales
He asks for your own heart. Give it such as it is ... Are we not aware that everything that is remitted into His divine hands is converted to good?
— Francis De Sales
Whatever happens, abide steadfast in a determination to cling simply to God.
— Saint Francis De Sales
We must visit Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament a hundred thousand times a day.
— Saint Francis De Sales
Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.
— Saint Francis De Sales
Is it not a great temptation to be so valiant in imagination and so cowardly in execution?
— Saint Francis De Sales
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
— Francis De Sales
A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
— Saint Francis De Sales
The Lord delights in every little step you take.
— Saint Francis De Sales
Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.
— Saint Francis De Sales
It matters little how one begins, provided that he be resolved to go on well, and to end well.
— Saint Francis De Sales
The Devil doesn't fear austerity but holy obedience.
— Saint Francis De Sales
Work hard every day at increasing your purity of heart, which consists in appraising things and weighing them in the balance of God's will.
— Saint Francis De Sales
The spirit cannot endure the body when overfed, but, if underfed, the body cannot endure the spirit.
— Saint Francis De Sales
Even as birds on the wing meet the air continually, we, let us go where we will, meet with that Presence always and everywhere.
— Francis De Sales
From the heights of heaven Jesus Christ mercifully looks down upon you and graciously invites you there.
— Francis De Sales
Cook the truth in charity until it tastes sweet.
— Saint Francis De Sales
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
— Saint Francis De Sales
Grace is never wanting. God always gives sufficient grace to whoever is willing to receive it.
— Francis De Sales
There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
— Saint Francis De Sales
It is a great imperfection to complain unceasingly of little things.
— Saint Francis De Sales
The whole world is not worth one soul.
— Francis De Sales
All of us can attain to Christian virtue and holiness, no matter in what condition of life we live and no matter what our life work may be.
— Saint Francis De Sales
We are crucified to the world, and the world must be as crucified to us. It esteems us as fools, let us esteem it as mad.
— Francis De Sales
Humility makes our lives acceptable to God, meekness makes us acceptable to men.
— Saint Francis De Sales
When human aid fails us, all is not wanting; for God takes over and takes care of us by His special Providence.
— Francis De Sales
He who can preserve gentleness amid pains, and peace amid worry multitude of affairs, is almost perfect.
— Saint Francis De Sales
There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!
— Saint Francis De Sales
What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.
— Saint Francis De Sales
Souls do not wish to be bullied, but gently brought back; such is the nature of man.
— Saint Francis De Sales
Retire at various times into the solitude of your own heart, even while outwardly engaged in discussions or transactions with others, and talk to God.
— Saint Francis De Sales
Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne well those laid on you; it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently.
— Saint Francis De Sales
To love our neighbor in charity is to love God in man.
— Saint Francis De Sales
A dance is the devil's procession, and he that entereth into a dance, entereth into his possession.
— Saint Francis De Sales
While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.
— Saint Francis De Sales
Every Christian needs a half-hour of prayer each day, except when he is busy, then he needs an hour.
— Saint Francis De Sales
He would never exhort the faithful to persevere if he were not ready to give them the power to do so.
— Francis De Sales
We can never attain to perfection while we have an affection for any imperfection.
— Saint Francis De Sales
Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily.
— Saint Francis De Sales