We shall steer safely through every storm, so long as our heart is right, our intention fervent, our courage steadfast, and our trust fixed on God. If at times we are somewhat stunned by the tempest, never fear. Let us take breath, and go on afresh.
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One great remedy against all manner of temptation, great or small, is to open the heart and lay bare its suggestion, likings, and dislikings before some spiritual adviser for, ... the first condition which the Evil One makes with a soul, when he wants to entrap it, is silence.St. François de Sales
While extremely sensitive as to the slightest approach to slander, you must also guard against an extreme into which some people fall, who, in their desire to speak evil of no one, actually uphold and speak well of vice. If you have to do with one who is unquestionably a slanderer, do not excuse him by calling him frank and free-spoken do not call one who is notoriously vain, liberal and elegant do not call dangerous levities mere simplicity do not screen disobedience under the name of zeal or arrogance, of frankness or evil intimacy, of friendship. No, my friends, we must never, in our wish to shun slander, foster or flatter vice in others but we must call evil evil, and sin sin, and so doing we shall serve God's glory.
St. François de Sales
Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.
St. François de Sales
He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying.
St. François de Sales
Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.
St. François de Sales
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