Life is a journey…
This life is only a journey to the happy life to come. We must march on as a band of brothers and sisters, companions united in meekness, peace and love.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
This life is only a journey to the happy life to come. We must march on as a band of brothers and sisters, companions united in meekness, peace and love.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
Redemption is a hundred times better than innocence.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
He who lives but for God seeks only God, and since God is with him in adversity as well as in prosperity, he dwells in peace in the midst of tribulation.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
Compassion, sympathy, commiseration or pity is simply an affection that makes us share the sufferings and sorrows of ones we love and draws the misery that they endure into our own hearts.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
Perseverance is the most desirable gift we can hope for in this life. It is in our power to persevere. Of course, I do not mean that our perseverance takes its origin from our power. On the contrary, I know that it springs from God’s mercy, whose most precious gift it is.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
Devotion is true spiritual sugar for it removes discontent from the poor, anxiety from the rich, grief from the oppressed, pride from the exalted, melancholy from the solitary and exhausting from those in society. It serves with equal benefit as fire in winter and dew in summer.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)