Walk very simply…
Walk very simply along the way our Lord shows you and don’t worry.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
Go on joyfully….
Go on joyfully and with your heart as open and widely trustful as possible; and if you cannot always be joyful at least be brave and confident.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
We retire into God…
By interior recollection we retire into God, or draw God within ourselves. But when and where can we have recourse to it? At all times, and in all places.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
Suffer patiently…
We need to suffer patiently not only the burden of being ill, but of being ill with the particular illness that God wants for us, among the people that He wants us to be with, and with the discomforts that He permits us to experience. I say the same of all other tribulations.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
Envy makes us…
Envy makes us sorry that our neighbor enjoys a greater good than ours, or a like good, even though he takes nothing away from ours. In such cases, envy is unreasonable and makes us think that our neighbor’s good is our ill.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
Hope is simply…
Hope is simply looking towards – and striving for – our supreme good, who is God. We hope for such things as we expect to gain by another’s aid, whereas we aspire to such things as we strive after by our own resources and by ourselves.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
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