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Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.
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St Francis de Sales (via catholic-inspiration)
4:00am | 23 Aug 2011 | 151 notes | catholic | quote | saint | francis | francis de sales
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[God] does not want each person to keep all the counsels, but only those appropriate to the diversity of persons, times, opportunities, and strengths, as charity requires; for it is charity, as queen of all virtues, all commandments, all counsels, and, in short, of all laws and all Christian actions that gives to all of them their rank, order, time, and value.
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St Francis de Sales (via wreckedsolitaryhere)
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True humility does not make a show of herself or use many humble words; for she desires not only to conceal all other virtues, but most of all to conceal herself.
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St Francis de Sales (via catholic-inspiration)

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4:40pm | 4 Sep 2011 | 17 notes | catholic | quote | saint | Francis de Sales | humility | virtue