Quotes from Saint Francis de Sales

Every morning prepare your soul for a tranquil day.

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

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

Souls do not wish to be bullied, but gently brought back; such is the nature of man.

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

Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.

Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

He who can preserve gentleness amid pains, and peace amid worry multitude of affairs, is almost perfect.

Don't get upset with your imperfections. Surrender to the Power of God's Love, which is greater than our weakness.

To lose ourselves in God is simply to give up our own will to Him. When a soul can truly say Lord I have no other will than Thine it is truly lost in God and united to Him.

There is nothing small in the service of God.

Whatever happens, abide steadfast in a determination to cling simply to God.

He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying.

Since God often sends us inspirations by means of His angels, we should frequently return our aspirations to him by means of the same messengers.

Let us be what God likes, so long as we are His, and let us not be what we want to be, if it is against his intention.

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.

One of the most evil dispositions possible is that which satirizes and turns everything to ridicule. God abhors this vice, and has sometimes punished it in a marked manner

Provided that God be glorified, we must not care by whom.

Take care of your health, that it may serve you to serve God.

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.

Humor is the foundation of reconciliation.

He who stays not in his littleness, loses his greatness.

Those who pray from the heart do not think about the prayer they are saying, but about the God to whom they pray.

Every Christian needs a half-hour of prayer each day, except when he is busy, then he needs an hour.