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Humility Quotes by Saint Francis de Sales

10 Humility quotes by Saint Francis de Sales

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Saint Francis de Sales shares ten brief thoughts on humility that echo a timeless calm. These short pieces work well as a quick mental reset, highlighting the quiet power of modest living.

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True humility scarcely ever utters words of humility.

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Humility makes our lives acceptable to God, meekness makes us acceptable to men.

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Provided that God be glorified, we must not care by whom.

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The highest degree of meekness consists in seeing, serving, honoring, and treating amiably, on occasion, those who are not to our taste,…

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The highest point of humility consists in not merely acknowledging one's abjection, but in taking pleasure therein, not from any want of…

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Professions of humility are the very cream, the very essence of pride; the really humble person wishes to be, and not to…

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Do not be ashamed of being poor, or of asking alms. Receive what is given you with humility, and accept a refusal…

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We do not very often come across opportunities for exercising strength, magnanimity, or magnificence; but gentleness, temperance, modesty, and humility, are graces…

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Go to your confessor; open your heart to him; display to him all the recesses of your soul; take the advice that…

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Be neat, Philothea; let nothing be negligent about you. It is a kind of contempt of those with whom we converse, to…

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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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And when children begin to use their reason, fathers and mothers should take great pains to fill their hearts with the fear of God.…

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Pride dies 20 minutes after death.

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To be pleased at correction and reproofs shows that one loves the virtues which are contrary to those faults for which he is corrected…

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If you would fall into any extreme, let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists…

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One single act done with aridity of spirit is worth more than many done with feelings of devotion.

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We must visit Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament a hundred thousand times a day.

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