Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.
¶ (Attributed)
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St. François de Sales (1567-1622) French prelate
Nothing is so strong as gentleness; nothing so gentle as real strength.
¶ (Attributed)
He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying.
¶ (Attributed)
The world often looks with contempt upon piety because it pictures the pious as men of downcast and sorrowful faces, but Christ himself testifies that the inner life is a soft, sweet, and happy one.
¶ Introduction to a Devout Life (1618)
A brave man can easily bear with contempt, slander, and false accusations from an evil world; but to bear such injustice at the hands of good men, of friends and relations, is a great test of patience.
¶ Introduction to a Devout Life, Part III, no. 3, "On Patience" (1618)
Fear is a greater evil than the evil itself.
¶ Letters to Persons in the World, 6,12
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