Quotes from Francis de Sales
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
- Francis de Sales
Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.
- Francis de Sales
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, And try to be that perfectly.
- Francis de Sales
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.
- Francis de Sales
Make yourself familiar with the angels, and behold them frequently in spirit for without being seen, they are present with you.
- Francis de Sales
Nothing is so powerful as gentleness nothing is so gentle as true strength.
- Francis de Sales
There is nothing as strong as tenderness, And nothing as tender as true strength.
- Francis de Sales
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.
- Francis de Sales
The slow pace of our perfection has to be borne with patience, provided that on our part we always do whatever we can to continue advancing.
- Francis de Sales
It is to those who have the most need of us that we ought to show our love more especially.
- Francis de Sales
A heart-memory is better than a mere head-memory. Better to carry away a little of the love of Christ in our souls, than if we were able to repeat every word of every sermon we ever heard.
- Francis de Sales
Truly it is a blessed thing to love on earth as we hope to love in Heaven, and to begin that friendship here which is to endure for ever there.
- Francis de Sales