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Heart Quotes by Saint Francis de Sales
- It is wonderful how attractive a gentle, pleasant manner is, and how much it wins hearts.
- Do not look forward to what may happen tomorrow; the same everlasting Father who cares for you today will take care of you tomorrow and…
- Frequent not the company of immodest persons, especially if they be also impudent, as is generally the case; ...these corrupted souls and infected hearts scarcely…
- If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently... And even if you did nothing during the whole of…
- Strive to see God in all things without exception. Do not smother yourself...If you start smothering yourself with a host of cares and longings and…
- When you have received Him, stir up your heart to do Him homage; speak to Him about your spiritual life, gazing upon Him in your…
- 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…
- Go to your confessor; open your heart to him; display to him all the recesses of your soul; take the advice that he will give…
- 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…
- We shall steer safely through every storm, so long as our heart is right, our intention fervent, our courage steadfast, and our trust fixed on…
- True virtue has no limits, but goes on and on, and especially holy charity, which is the virtue of virtues, and which having a definite…
- How are you to meet the swarm of foolish attachments, triflings, and undesirable inclinations which beset you? By turning sharply away, and thoroughly renouncing such…
- Let God be the air in which your heart breathes at ease.
- Retire at various times into the solitude of your own heart, even while outwardly engaged in discussions or transactions with others, and talk to God.
More Heart Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place. — Lance Armstrong
- While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism. — Mary Astell
- I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's… — Rodney Atkins
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it… — Margaret Atwood
- Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart. — Kevyn Aucoin