Saint Francis de Sales Quotes About Saints

Quotes about: Saints

• Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Patience, Love Yourself, Recovery

• What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.

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  Ocean, Understanding, Saint

• We must fear God out of love, not love Him out of fear.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Saint, Fear God

• Let us run to Mary, and, as her little children, cast ourselves into her arms with a perfect confidence.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Running, Religious, Children

• 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

• Make yourself familiar with the angels and behold them frequently in spirit; for without being seen, they are present with you.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Losing A Loved One, Angel, Saint

• 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 themselves unfriendly, ungrateful, and troublesome to us.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Ungrateful, Taste, Degrees

• It is to those who have the most need of us that we ought to show our love more especially.

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  Saint, Needs, Our Love

  Saint Francis de Sales, Aeterna Press (1892*). “The Spiritual Conferences”, p.87, Aeterna Press

• 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 work may be.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Christian, Saint, Holiness

• The greatest method of praying is to pray the Rosary.

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  Catholic, Rosary, Saint

• You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Love, Education, Running

• The state of marriage is one that requires more virtue and constancy than any other; it is a perpetual exercise in mortification.

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  Exercise, Saint, Serving Others

  Saint Francis de Sales, Aeterna Press (2015). “Letters to Persons in the World”, p.24, Aeterna Press

• Many would be willing to have afflictions provided that they not be inconvenienced by them.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Suffering, Saint, Would Be

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.4260, Catholic Way Publishing

• Go to your confessor; open your heart to him; display to him all the recesses of your soul; take the advice that he will give you with the utmost humility and simplicity. For God, Who has an infinite love for obedience, frequently renders profitable the counsels we take from others, but especially from those who are the guides of our souls.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Humility, Heart, Giving

• 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, has made himself most saintly.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Two, Suffering, Saint

• 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, and deed you may as far as possible counteract them.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Passion, Soul, Mold

• We may be excused for not always being bright, but we are not excused for not being gracious, yielding and considerate.

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  Saint, May, Serving Others

  Saint Francis de Sales, Aeterna Press (2015). “The Spiritual Maxims of Saint Francis de Sales”, p.19, Aeterna Press

• One single act done with aridity of spirit is worth more than many done with feelings of devotion.

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  Feelings, Saint, Done

• Mount Calvary is the academy of love.

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  Saint, Calvary, Passion Of The Christ

  Saint Francis de Sales, Aeterna Press (1962*). “Treatise on the Love of God”, p.513, Aeterna Press

• Consider all the past as nothing, and say, like David: Now I begin to love my God.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Past, Saint

• Though perseverance does not come from our power, yet it comes within our power.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Perseverance, Doe, Saint

  "The Spiritual Maxims of Saint Francis de Sales".

• 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 object, would become infinite if it could meet with a heart capable of infinity.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Heart, Saint, Goes On

• Every moment comes to us pregnant with a command from God, only to pass on and plunge into eternity, there to remain forever what we have made of it.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Forever, Saint, Moments

• 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 by God and the Saints for our perfection, and so carelessly received by us! If this end were to come to you today, how would you be pleased with the life you have led this year?

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Years, Numbers, Perfection

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