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Saint Quotes by Saint Francis de Sales
- All the science of the Saints is included in these two things: To do, and to suffer. And whoever had done these two things best,…
- We must fear God out of love, not love Him out of fear.
- Consider all the past as nothing, and say, like David: Now I begin to love my God.
- All of us can attain to Christian virtue and holiness, no matter in what condition of life we live and no matter what our life…
- Let us run to Mary, and, as her little children, cast ourselves into her arms with a perfect confidence.
- The greatest method of praying is to pray the Rosary.
- Though perseverance does not come from our power, yet it comes from within our power.
- 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…
- One single act done with aridity of spirit is worth more than many done with feelings of devotion.
- 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…
- Mount Calvary is the academy of love.
- Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.
- The highest degree of meekness consists in seeing, serving, honoring, and treating amiably, on occasion, those who are not to our taste, and who show…
- Examine from time to time what are the dominant passions of your soul, and having ascertained this, mold your life, so that in thought, word,…
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- Every Latter-day Saint should love the inspired Constitution of the United States - a nation with a spiritual foundation and a prophetic… — Ezra Taft Benson
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