Work 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 SalesBe not miserable about what may happen tomorrow. The same everlasting Father, who cares for you today, will care for you tomorrow.
Saint Francis de SalesChastity is the lily of virtues, and makes men almost equal to Angels. Everything is beautiful in accordance with its purity. Now the purity of man is chastity, which is called honesty, and the observance of it, honor and also integrity; and its contrary is called corruption; in short, it has this peculiar excellence above the other virtues, that it preserves both soul and body fair and unspotted.
Saint Francis de SalesFlowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.
Saint Francis de Sales