When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Saint Francis de SalesObedience is a consecration of the heart, chastity of the body, and poverty of all worldly goods to the Love and Service of God. Blessed indeed are the obedient, for God will never permit them to go astray.
Saint Francis de SalesThere is no better means of attainment to the spiritual life Than by continually beginning again.
Saint Francis de SalesWork hard every day at increasing your purity of heart, which consists in appraising things and weighing them in the balance of God's will.
Saint Francis de SalesConsider the pains which martyrs have endured, and think how even now many people are bearing afflictions beyond all measure greater than yours, and say, "Of a truth my trouble is comfort, my torments are but roses as compared to those whose life is a continual death, without solace, or aid or consolation, borne down with a weight of grief tenfold greater than mine."
Saint Francis de Sales