Consider all the past as nothing, and say, like David: Now I begin to love my God. — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Take care of your health, that it may serve you to serve God. — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Whatever happens, abide steadfast in a determination to cling simply to God. — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
So many have come to me that I might serve them, leaving me no time to think of myself. However, I assure… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Let us be what God likes, so long as we are His, and let us not be what we want to be,… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Retire at various times into the solitude of your own heart, even while outwardly engaged in discussions or transactions with others, and… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Those who pray from the heart do not think about the prayer they are saying, but about the God to whom they… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Do everything calmly and peacefully. Do as much as you can as well as you can. Strive to see God in all… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
O my child, bethink you that just as the bee, having gathered heaven's dew and earth's sweetest juices from amid the flowers,… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying. — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept. — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share
The thoughts of those moved by natural human love are almost completely fastened on the beloved, their hearts are filled with passion for it,… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share
It matters little how one begins, provided that he be resolved to go on well, and to end well. — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share
Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share
Go to your confessor; open your heart to him; display to him all the recesses of your soul; take the advice that he will… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off. — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share
And when children begin to use their reason, fathers and mothers should take great pains to fill their hearts with the fear of God.… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share
To be pleased at correction and reproofs shows that one loves the virtues which are contrary to those faults for which he is corrected… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share
If you would fall into any extreme, let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share
One single act done with aridity of spirit is worth more than many done with feelings of devotion. — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share
All of us can attain to Christian virtue and holiness, no matter in what condition of life we live and no matter what our… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share
We must visit Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament a hundred thousand times a day. — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share
