Francis de Sales Quotes

Be generous and you can be the best person who ever lived.

The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

Charity never faileth.

Give more than is expected, love more than seems wise, serve more than seems necessary, and help more than is asked.

Lord, help us to live the virtue of generosity, to love without limits.

I choose kindness... I will be kind to the poor, for they are alone. Kind to the rich, for they are afraid. And kind to the unkind, for such is how God has treated me

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Caretaking is different from care giving. Care giving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached. It cannot be manipulated or discouraged because love cannot be manipulated or discouraged.

If you have donated, these children may never know your name, but they will never forget your kindness.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

My mother was kind and forgiving and would take in all the waifs and strays in our neighbourhood; we always compared her to Mother Teresa. She taught me a lot.

It's not our job to play judge and jury, to determine who is worthy of our kindness and who is not. We just need to be kind, unconditionally and without ulterior motive, even - or rather, especially - when we'd prefer not to be.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.

You get everything you could have ever wished for if you're willing to give that eternal bliss away to somebody else, to give it back.

There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.