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May Quotes by Saint Francis de Sales

10 May quotes by Saint Francis de Sales

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De Sales’ ten succinct reflections on May bring a gentle, devotional tone to the season. Each piece feels like a short prayer, perfect for a moment of calm amid spring’s bustle.

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Take care of your health, that it may serve you to serve God.

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We may be excused for not always being bright, but we are not excused for not being gracious, yielding and considerate.

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Examine from time to time what are the dominant passions of your soul, and having ascertained this, mold your life, so that…

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Be not miserable about what may happen tomorrow. The same everlasting Father, who cares for you today, will care for you tomorrow.

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All of us can attain to Christian virtue and holiness, no matter in what condition of life we live and no matter…

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In no other action can our Savior be considered more tender or more loving than in this, in which He, as it…

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When you have received Him, stir up your heart to do Him homage; speak to Him about your spiritual life, gazing upon…

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How are you to meet the swarm of foolish attachments, triflings, and undesirable inclinations which beset you? By turning sharply away, and…

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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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Do not look forward to the changes and chances of this life in fear; rather look to them with full hope that,…

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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 he will…

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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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