Saint Francis de Sales Quotes

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

Be who you are and be that well.

Make yourself familiar with the angels and behold them frequently in spirit; for without being seen, they are present with you.

Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

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.

We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.

The greatest method of praying is to pray the Rosary.

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!

The highest degree of meekness consists in seeing, serving, honoring, and treating amiably, on occasion, those who are not to our taste, and who show themselves unfriendly, ungrateful, and troublesome to us.

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

Go to your confessor; open your heart to him; display to him all the recesses of your soul; take the advice that he will give you with the utmost humility and simplicity. For God, Who has an infinite love for obedience, frequently renders profitable the counsels we take from others, but especially from those who are the guides of our souls.

We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.