Quotes from Francis de Sales
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.
- Francis de Sales
Humor is the foundation of reconciliation.
- Francis de Sales
He who stays not in his littleness, loses his greatness.
- Francis de Sales
Those who pray from the heart do not think about the prayer they are saying, but about the God to whom they pray.
- Francis de Sales
Every Christian needs a half-hour of prayer each day, except when he is busy, then he needs an hour.
- Francis de Sales
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!
- Francis de Sales
By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.
- Francis de Sales
Make sickness itself a prayer.
- Francis de Sales
You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar.
- Francis de Sales
All the science of the Saints is included in these two things: To do, and to suffer. And whoever had done these two things best, has made himself most saintly.
- Francis de Sales
One single day of devotion is worth more than a thousand years of worldly life.
- Francis de Sales
By giving yourself to God, You not only receive Himself in exchange, but eternal life as well.
- Francis de Sales