Saint Francis de Sales Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• God takes pleasure to see you take your little steps; and like a good father who holds his child by the hand, He will accommodate His steps to yours and will be content to go no faster than you. Why do you worry?

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Children, Father, Hands

• It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal times or worse to dwell on it afterwards, to discuss it and wallow in the remembered pleasures of every mouthful. Those whose minds dwell before dinner on the spit, and after on the dishes, are fit only to be scullions.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Time, Mean, Mind

  "Introduction to the Devout Life". Book by Saint Francis de Sales, Pt. 3, ch. 39, 1609.

• 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, but to give the more glory to God's Divine Majesty, and to esteem one's neighbour more highly than one's self.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Humility, Self, Giving

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.200, Catholic Way Publishing

• If after all your efforts you cannot succeed, you could not please our Lord more than by sacrificing to Him your will, and remaining in tranquility, humility, and devotion, entirely conformed and submissive to His divine will and good pleasure.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Humility, Sacrifice, Effort

  Saint Francis de Sales, Aeterna Press (2015). “Letters to Persons in the World”, p.39, Aeterna Press

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