"God requires a faithful fulfillment of the merest……" — Saint Francis de Sales
"God requires a faithful fulfillment of the merest trifle given us to do, rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to which we are not called."
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Saint Francis de Sales
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154 Quotes by Saint Francis de Sales
Saint Francis de Sales has 154 quotes on this site.
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Every Christian needs a half-hour of prayer each day, except when he is busy, then he needs an hour.
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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just…
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Since God often sends us inspirations by means of His angels, we should frequently return our aspirations to him by…
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All the science of the Saints is included in these two things: To do, and to suffer. And whoever had…
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Faith fills a man with love for the beauty of its truth, with faith in the truth of its beauty
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Fear is a greater evil than evil itself.
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...There is no better means of attainment to the spiritual life Than by continually beginning again...
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You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar.
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Humor is the foundation of reconciliation.
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Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas…
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It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal…
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The elephant, not only the largest but the most intelligent of animals, provides us with an excellent example. It is…
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An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.
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I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its…
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Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect…
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He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion…
— Edmund Burke
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My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to…
— Sam Abell
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There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous,…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top.
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The idea of restraining the legislative authority, in the means of providing for the national defense, is one of those…
— Alexander Hamilton
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A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create…
— Plutarch
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Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel…
— Robert Collier
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No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as…
— Thomas Jefferson
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