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One Quotes by Saint Francis de Sales
- The whole world is not worth one soul.
- 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.…
- One single day of devotion is worth more than a thousand years of worldly life.
- The highest point of humility consists in not merely acknowledging one's abjection, but in taking pleasure therein, not from any want of breadth or courage,…
- The state of marriage is one that requires more virtue and constancy than any other; it is a perpetual exercise in mortification.
- 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…
- One single act done with aridity of spirit is worth more than many done with feelings of devotion.
- People can pass thirty nights in dancing and no one complains about it, but if they watch through a single Christmas night they cough and…
- 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,…
- 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…
- Without a doubt, one of the things which keeps us from attaining perfection is our tongue. When one has reached the point of no longer…
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