Saint Francis de Sales Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• Do not look forward to what may happen tomorrow; the same everlasting Father who cares for you today will take care of you tomorrow and every day. Either He will shield you from suffering, or He will give you unfailing strength to bear it. Be at peace, then, put aside all anxious thoughts and imaginations, and say continually: 'The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart has trusted in Him and I am helped. He is not only with me but in me and I in Him.'

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Father, Heart, Anxious Thoughts

• Do not look forward to the changes and chances of this life in fear; rather look to them with full hope that, as they arise, God, whose you are, will deliver you out of them. He is your keeper. He has kept you hitherto. Do you but hold fast to his dear hand, and he will lead you safely through all things; and, when you cannot stand, he will bear you in his arms. Do not look forward to what may happen tomorrow. Our Father will either shield you from suffering, or he will give you strength to bear it.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Hope, Father, Hands

• 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

• 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

• The Prayer of the sick person is his patience and his acceptance of his sickness for the love of Jesus Christ. Make sickness itself a prayer, for there is none more powerful, save martyrdom!

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Jesus, Prayer, Powerful

• Represent to yourself a dark city all burning and stinking with fire and brimstone. The damned are in the depth of hell within this woful city, where they suffer unspeakable torments in all their senses and members. Consider above all the eternity of their pains, which above all things makes hell intolerable.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Pain, Dark, Cities

• I see crosses at every turn. My flesh shudders over it, but my heart adores them. Yes, I hail you, crosses little and great, I hail you, and kiss your feet, unworthy of the honor of your shadow.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Heart, Kissing, Feet

• Do not fret under such assistance as is needful; therein lies one great grace of poverty. It were overambitious to aim at being poor without suffering any inconvenience, in other words, to have the credit of poverty and the convenience of riches.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Lying, Grace, Suffering

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “Introduction to the Devout Life”, p.211, Catholic Way Publishing

• Do not be ashamed of being poor, or of asking alms. Receive what is given you with humility, and accept a refusal meekly. Frequently call to mind Our Lady's journey into Egypt with her Holy Child, and of all the poverty, contempt and suffering they endured. If you follow their example you will indeed be rich amid your poverty.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Children, Humility, Journey

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “Introduction to the Devout Life”, p.211, Catholic Way Publishing

• God will either shield you from suffering or give you unfailing strength to bear it.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Giving, Suffering, Shields

• The truly patient man neither complains of his hard lot nor desires to be pitied by others. He speaks of his sufferings in a natural, true, and sincere way, without murmuring, complaining, or exaggerating them.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Men, Suffering, Desire

• The damned are in the abyss of Hell, as within a woeful city, where they suffer unspeakable torments, in all their senses and members, because as they have employed all their senses and their members in sinning, so shall they suffer in each of them the punishment due to sin.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Punishment, Cities, Suffering

  "Introduction to the Devout Life". Book by Saint Francis de Sales, Pt. 2, ch. 15, 1609.

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