Quotes by Francis de Sales

Francis de Sales (1567–1622) — Bischof · Katholisch · Frankreich

Franz von Sales (1567–1622) war ein römisch-katholischer Theologe, Ordensgründer und Bischof von Genf mit Exilsitz in Annecy. Er begründete eine von Milde und Herzensbildung geprägte Laienspiritualität, wobei sein Vorgehen bei der Rekatholisierung der Region Chablais im Verbund mit staatlichen Zwangsmaßnahmen historisch umstritten ist. Heutigen Bibellesern bieten seine Schriften Impulse für einen barmherzigen, gelassenen Glauben inmitten alltäglicher Pflichten.

Era: Reformation & Baroque

Recurring topics: Love, Humility & Pride, Peace & Rest, Joy & Gratitude, Growth & Character, Patience & Waiting, Faith & Trust, Meaning & Identity

Quotes by Francis de Sales

My past no longer concerns me. It belongs to God's mercy. My future does not yet concern me. It belongs to divine providence. What concerns me, and what claims me, is today - it belongs to God's grace and to the surrender of my heart, my good will.
Francis de Sales

I want no strange, restless, sad and sullen piety, but a gentle, mild, pleasant and peaceful one, in a word: a free and joyful piety that is lovable before God and men.
Francis de Sales

Great opportunities to serve God are rare, but small ones are frequent.
Francis de Sales

I wish you the spirit of freedom, which does everything out of love and nothing out of compulsion.
Francis de Sales

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
Francis de Sales

The measure of love is love without measure.
Francis de Sales

A sad saint is a sorry saint.
Francis de Sales

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
Francis de Sales

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.
Francis de Sales

Have patience with all things, but chief of all with yourself.
Francis de Sales

Love alone determines the value of our actions.
Francis de Sales

Love does not destroy, it perfects all things.
Francis de Sales

God looks not so much at what is done, but at how it is done.
Francis de Sales

Love is humility rising to the heights; humility is love bending low.
Francis de Sales

Let us be what we are, and let us be it well.
Francis de Sales

Blessed are the flexible hearts, for they shall never break.
Francis de Sales

Our perfection consists for the most part in bearing with one another in our imperfections.
Francis de Sales

A preacher is good when his congregation, on leaving, does not say: What a marvelous sermon! - but: I will do something.
Francis de Sales

However great the darkness may be, we are near the light. However great our weakness may be, we are at the feet of the Almighty.
Francis de Sales

Let us think well of those who want to live as Christians, even when we see faults in them; even the saints had faults.
Francis de Sales

No soil is so barren that it cannot be made fruitful by kindness and love.
Francis de Sales

With eagle eyes we see others' faults, with mole's eyes our own.
Francis de Sales

A person experiences himself in many different ways amid the brokenness of his existence. But he may accept himself as he is, because he knows himself loved by God.
Francis de Sales

An ounce of example weighs more than a hundredweight of words.
Francis de Sales

The best remedy I know against sudden fits of impatience is a sweet and bitterless silence.
Francis de Sales

God's love is always greater than our suffering can be.
Francis de Sales

Praise the Lord with the face he gave you.
Francis de Sales

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
Francis de Sales

Death is life when it takes place in the presence of God.
Francis de Sales

To lose love is the only loss we must fear in this life.
Francis de Sales

In His infinite goodness, God will never forsake those who do not wish to forsake Him.
Francis de Sales

I have sought rest everywhere, and at last found it in a corner with a little book.
Francis de Sales

God is the God of joy. Joy is therefore the true religious attitude.
Francis de Sales

There is nothing in the world as precious as peace of heart.
Francis de Sales

A single Our Father prayed devoutly is better than many rattled off hastily and thoughtlessly.
Francis de Sales

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
Francis de Sales

While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.
Francis de Sales

The time to seek God is this life. The time to find God is death. The time to possess God is eternity.
Francis de Sales

True love scarcely has a method.
Francis de Sales

As soon as man thinks a little of God, his heart feels a certain blissful stirring, which bears witness that God is the God of the human heart.
Francis de Sales

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