→ What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.
→ Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
→ Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.
→ 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.
Select the quotation attributed to Francis de Sales.
→ Things forbidden have a secret charm.
→ Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.
→ Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.
→ Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.
One of these may be attributed to Francis de Sales. Which one?
→ If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
→ If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
→ Don’t let your throat tighten with fear. Take sips of breath all day and night, before death closes your mouth.
→ 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.
Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Francis de Sales.
→ Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave till it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.
→ Don’t let your throat tighten with fear. Take sips of breath all day and night, before death closes your mouth.
→ Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.
→ There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love—every man works his oar voluntarily!
Can you identify which quote belongs to Francis de Sales?
→ Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.
→ Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
→ Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.
→ We shall steer safely through every storm, so long as our heart is right, our intention fervent, our courage steadfast, and our trust fixed on God.