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Makes Quotes by Saint Francis de Sales
- 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…
- Chastity is the lily of virtues, and makes men almost equal to Angels. Everything is beautiful in accordance with its purity. Now the purity of…
- Represent to yourself a dark city all burning and stinking with fire and brimstone. The damned are in the depth of hell within this woful…
- Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great.
- Humility makes our lives acceptable to God, meekness makes us acceptable to men.
- 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…
- All true and living devotion presupposes the love of God and indeed it is neither more nor less than a very real love of God,…
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