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Him Quotes by Saint Francis de Sales
- Since God often sends us inspirations by means of His angels, we should frequently return our aspirations to him by means of the same messengers.
- Have Jesus always for your patron, His Cross for a mast on which you must spread your resolutions as a sail. Your anchor shall be…
- 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…
- We must fear God out of love, not love Him out of fear.
- Lately I was near the beehives and some of the bees flew onto my face. I wanted to raise my hand, and brush them off.…
- When the bee has gathered the dew of heaven and the earth's sweetest nectar from the flowers, it turns it into honey, then hastens to…
- 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…
- 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…
- Do everything calmly and peacefully. Do as much as you can as well as you can. Strive to see God in all things without exception,…
- 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…
More Him Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden