Saint Francis de Sales Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• We do not very often come across opportunities for exercising strength, magnanimity, or magnificence; but gentleness, temperance, modesty, and humility, are graces which ought to colour everything we do. There may be virtues of a more exalted mould, but... these are the most continually called for in daily life.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Humility, Exercise, Opportunity

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.177, Catholic Way Publishing

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

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Exercise, Saint, Serving Others

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

• Chastity is the lily of virtues, and makes men almost equal to Angels. Everything is beautiful in accordance with its purity. Now the purity of man is chastity, which is called honesty, and the observance of it, honor and also integrity; and its contrary is called corruption; in short, it has this peculiar excellence above the other virtues, that it preserves both soul and body fair and unspotted.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Beautiful, Honesty, Integrity

• 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

• To be pleased at correction and reproofs shows that one loves the virtues which are contrary to those faults for which he is corrected and reproved. And, therefore, it is a great sign of advancement in perfection.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Faith, Inspiration, Perfection

• Obedience is a virtue of so excellent a nature, that Our Lord was pleased to mark its observance upon the whole course of His life; thus He often says, He did not come to do His Own will, but that of His Heavenly Father.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Father, Virtue, Lord

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