Saint Francis de Sales Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Evil, Worry, Anxiety

• We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Evil, Choices, Abuse

  Saint Francis de Sales, Aeterna Press (1962*). “Treatise on the Love of God”, p.510, Aeterna Press

• While extremely sensitive as to the slightest approach to slander, you must also guard against an extreme into which some people fall, who, in their desire to speak evil of no one, actually uphold and speak well of vice.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Fall, People, Evil

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.279, Catholic Way Publishing

• If you have to do with one who is unquestionably a slanderer, do not excuse him by calling him frank and free-spoken; do not call one who is notoriously vain, liberal and elegant; do not call dangerous levities mere simplicity; do not screen disobedience under the name of zeal; or arrogance, of frankness; or evil intimacy, of friendship. No, my friends, we must never, in our wish to shun slander, foster or flatter vice in others: but we must call evil evil, and sin sin, and so doing we shall serve God's glory.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Names, Evil, Simplicity

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.279, Catholic Way Publishing

• Fear is a greater evil than evil itself.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Fear, Evil, Greater

• 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 some spiritual adviser; for, . . . the first condition which the Evil One makes with a soul, when he wants to entrap it, is silence.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Spiritual, Heart, Evil

• One of the most evil dispositions possible is that which satirizes and turns everything to ridicule. God abhors this vice, and has sometimes punished it in a marked manner

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Evil, Vices, Sometimes

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “Introduction to the Devout Life”, p.248, Catholic Way Publishing

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