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Great Quotes by Saint Francis de Sales
- Oh what remorse we shall feel at the end of our lives, when we look back upon the great number of instructions and examples afforded…
- Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily.
- Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great.
- I see crosses at every turn. My flesh shudders over it, but my heart adores them. Yes, I hail you, crosses little and great, I…
- And when children begin to use their reason, fathers and mothers should take great pains to fill their hearts with the fear of God. This…
- Is it not a great temptation to be so valiant in imagination and so cowardly in execution?
- Don't get upset with your imperfections. It's a great mistake because it leads nowhere - to get angry because you are angry, upset at being…
- Don't sow your desires in someone else's garden; just cultivate your own as best you can; don't long to be other than what you are,…
- To be pleased at correction and reproofs shows that one loves the virtues which are contrary to those faults for which he is corrected and…
- One great remedy against all manner of temptation, great or small, is to open the heart and lay bare its suggestion, likings, and dislikings before…
- It is a great imperfection to complain unceasingly of little things.
- Do not fret under such assistance as is needful; therein lies one great grace of poverty. It were overambitious to aim at being poor without…
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