Quotes from Francis de Sales
He who can preserve gentleness amid pains, and peace amid worry multitude of affairs, is almost perfect.
- Francis de Sales
Don't get upset with your imperfections. Surrender to the Power of God's Love, which is greater than our weakness.
- Francis de Sales
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.
- Francis de Sales
There is nothing small in the service of God.
- Francis de Sales
Whatever happens, abide steadfast in a determination to cling simply to God.
- Francis de Sales
He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying.
- Francis de Sales
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.
- Francis de Sales
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.
- Francis de Sales
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.
- Francis de Sales
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
- Francis de Sales
Provided that God be glorified, we must not care by whom.
- Francis de Sales
Take care of your health, that it may serve you to serve God.
- Francis de Sales