Saint Francis de Sales Quotes - Page 8

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• When charity requires it we must freely and mildly communicate to our neighbor not only what is his instruction, but also what is profitable for his consolation.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Charity, Neighbor, Instruction

  Saint Francis de Sales, Aeterna Press (2015). “The Spiritual Maxims of Saint Francis de Sales”, p.13, Aeterna Press

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• If we say a little it is easy to add, but having said too much it is hard to withdraw and never can it be done so quickly as to hinder the harm of our success.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Add, Done, Littles

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• What son would not bring his mother back to life and would not bring her into paradise after her death if he could?

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Mother, Son, Paradise

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• Be neat, Philothea; let nothing be negligent about you. It is a kind of contempt of those with whom we converse, to frequent their company in uncomely apparel; but, at the same time, avoid all affectation, vanity, curiosity, or levity in your dress. Keep yourself always, as much as possible, on the side of plainness and modesty, which, without doubt, is the greatest ornament of beauty, and the best excuse for the want of it.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Vanity, Curiosity, Doubt

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• Make sickness itself a prayer.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Prayer, Sickness, Illness

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

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• I have the same opinion of dances that physicians have of mushrooms: the best of them are good for nothing.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Dance, Mushrooms, Dancing

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• 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

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• God requires a faithful fulfillment of the merest trifle given us to do, rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to which we are not called.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Time, Faithful, Given

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• And when children begin to use their reason, fathers and mothers should take great pains to fill their hearts with the fear of God. This the good Queen Blanche did most earnestly by St. Louis, her son: witness her oft-repeated words, "My son, I would sooner see you die than guilty of a mortal sin;" words which sank so deeply into the saintly monarch's heart, that he himself said there was no day on which they did not recur to his mind, and strengthen him in treading God's ways.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Mother, Queens, Pain

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• Consider the pains which martyrs have endured, and think how even now many people are bearing afflictions beyond all measure greater than yours, and say, "Of a truth my trouble is comfort, my torments are but roses as compared to those whose life is a continual death, without solace, or aid or consolation, borne down with a weight of grief tenfold greater than mine."

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Religious, Pain, Grief

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “Introduction to the Devout Life”, p.164, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Faith fills a man with love for the beauty of its truth, with faith in the truth of its beauty

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Faith, Men

  Saint Francis (de Sales) (1962). “The love of God, a treatise”

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• Many great persons have been of opinion that love is no other thing than complacency itself, in which they have had much appearance of reason. For not only does the movement of love take its origin from the complacency which the heart feels at the first approach of good, and find its end in a second complacency which returns to the heart by union with the thing beloved--but further, it depends for its preservation on this complacency, and can only subsist through it as through its mother and nurse; so that as soon as the complacency ceases, love ceases.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Love, Mother, Heart

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.493, Catholic Way Publishing

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• 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.

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  Children, Humility, Journey

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

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• When the bee has gathered the dew of heaven and the earth's sweetest nectar from the flowers, it turns it into honey, then hastens to its hive. In the same way, the priest, having taken from the altar the Son of God (who is as the dew from heaven, and true son of Mary, flower of our humanity), gives him to you as delicious food.

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  Flower, Taken, Son

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• 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.

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  Heart, Saint, Goes On

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• People can pass thirty nights in dancing and no one complains about it, but if they watch through a single Christmas night they cough and claim their stomach is upset the next morning. Does anyone fail to see that the world is an unjust judge, gracious and well disposed to its own children but harsh and rigorous towards the children of God?

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  Morning, Children, Night

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• Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

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  Love, Men, One Love

  "The Spirit of Saint Francis de Sales". Book by Jean-Pierre Camus, ch. 7, sct. 3, 1639.

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• Charity and devotion differ no more, the one from the other, than the flame from the fire.

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  Fire, Flames, Charity

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.4278, Catholic Way Publishing

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• A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Cutting, Discourse

  Letter upon Eloquence,

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• Big fires flare up in a wind, but little ones are blown out unless they are carried in under cover.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Fire, Flare Up, Wind

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• 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".

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• All true and living devotion presupposes the love of God and indeed it is neither more nor less than a very real love of God, though not always of the same kind; for that Love one while shining on the soul we call grace, which makes us acceptable to His Divine Majesty; when it strengthens us to do well, it is called Charity; but when it attains its fullest perfection, in which it not only leads us to do well, but to act carefully, diligently, and promptly, then it is called Devotion.

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  Real, Perfection, Shining

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• 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

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• There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Love, Men, Royal

  Saint Francis de Sales, Aeterna Press (2015). “The Spiritual Maxims of Saint Francis de Sales”, p.8, Aeterna Press

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• In no other action can our Savior be considered more tender or more loving than in this, in which He, as it were, annihilates Himself and reduces Himself to food, that He may penetrate our souls and unite Himself to the hearts of His faithful.

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  Heart, Soul, Faithful

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