Francis de Sales Quotes

Let all our employment be to know GOD: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him. And as knowledge is commonly the measure of love, the deeper and more extensive our knowledge shall be, the greater will be our love: and if our love of GOD were great, we should love Him equally in pains and pleasures.

In so far as divine love beautifies our souls. And makes us pleasing to His divine Majesty, it is called grace; in so far as it gives us strength to do good, it is called charity; but when it reaches such a degree of perfection, that it makes us not only do the good, but do so carefully, frequently and readily, then it is called devotion.

I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it's harder for a rich man to get into Heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life.

The Gospel purifies and renews: it bears fruit wherever the community of believers hears and welcomes the grace of God in truth and lives in charity. This is my faith; this is my joy.

Passion is best spent on God; so get committed.

Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.

Our desires, be they spiritual or temporal, should be rooted in a love of the Lord.

Adoration is caring for God above all else.

All grace grows as Love to the Word of God grows.

It is enough for me to pick up but a straw from the ground for the love of God.

We can do little things for God; I turn the cake that is frying on the pan for love of him, and that done, if there is nothing else to call me, I prostrate myself in worship before him, who has given me grace to work; afterwards I rise happier than a king.

It is by giving our whole hearts to the Master and keeping His commandments that we come to know Him. In time, through the power of the Atonement, our hearts are changed, and we can become like Him.

The more that you come to know Jesus for who He really is, loving Him is not a problem.

Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ can be bolstered as we learn about Him and live our religion. The doctrine of Jesus Christ was designed by the Lord to help us increase our faith.

When Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the seed of holiness is planted.

If we may not remain silent about evil in the Church, then neither should we keep silent about the great shining path of goodness and purity which the Christian faith has traced out over the course of the centuries.

How wonderful to know that Christianity is more than a padded pew or a dim cathedral, but that it is a real, living, daily experience which goes on from grace to grace.

Jesus showed me what it means to be holy - he did his father's will no matter how difficult it was to accomplish.

Christ is my life.

Thankful to have my daughters love the Lord with all their heart.

'St. Teresa' is one of my favorites. It reminds me of the importance of grace.