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
He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying. — 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
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
Consider all the past as nothing, and say, like David: Now I begin to love my God. — 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
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
Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept. — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off. — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
