WIST Quotations

François de Sales -- (Attributed)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying.

François de Sales (1567-1622) French bishop, saint, writer [a.k.a. Francis de Sales, b. François de Boisy]
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François de Sales -- (Attributed)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

Nothing is so strong as gentleness; nothing so gentle as real strength.

François de Sales (1567-1622) French bishop, saint, writer [a.k.a. Francis de Sales, b. François de Boisy]
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François de Sales -- (Attributed)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.

François de Sales (1567-1622) French bishop, saint, writer [a.k.a. Francis de Sales, b. François de Boisy]
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François de Sales -- (Attributed)

Dave — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:21:43 +0000

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.

François de Sales (1567-1622) French bishop, saint, writer [a.k.a. Francis de Sales, b. François de Boisy]
(Attributed)

In Jean-Pierre Camus, The Spirit of Saint Francis de Sales, 7.3 (1952)

François de Sales -- (Attributed)

Dave — Tue, 07 Jul 2015 12:37:39 +0000

My test of the real worth of a man as a preacher is when his congregation go away, saying, not, “What a beautiful sermon!” but “I will do something.”

François de Sales (1567-1622) French bishop, saint, writer [a.k.a. Francis de Sales, b. François de Boisy]
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François de Sales -- (Attributed)

Dave — Fri, 06 May 2016 18:57:46 +0000

The more you say, the less people remember.
The fewer the words, the greater the profit.

François de Sales (1567-1622) French bishop, saint, writer [a.k.a. Francis de Sales, b. François de Boisy]
(Attributed)

In S.A. Bent, comp., Familiar Short Sayings of Great Men (1887). Usually attributed, due to structure of that reference, to Francois Fénelon.

François de Sales -- Introduction to a Devout Life (1618)

Dave — Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:35:17 +0000

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.

François de Sales (1567-1622) French bishop, saint, writer [a.k.a. Francis de Sales, b. François de Boisy]
Introduction to a Devout Life (1618)

François de Sales -- Introduction to a Devout Life, Part III, no. 3, “On Patience” (1618)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

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.

François de Sales (1567-1622) French bishop, saint, writer [a.k.a. Francis de Sales, b. François de Boisy]
Introduction to a Devout Life, Part III, no. 3, “On Patience” (1618)

François de Sales -- Introduction to the Devout Life (1609)

Dave — Fri, 30 Aug 2013 19:40:52 +0000

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

François de Sales (1567-1622) French bishop, saint, writer [a.k.a. Francis de Sales, b. François de Boisy]
Introduction to the Devout Life (1609)

François de Sales -- Letters to Persons in the World, 6,12

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

Fear is a greater evil than the evil itself.

François de Sales (1567-1622) French bishop, saint, writer [a.k.a. Francis de Sales, b. François de Boisy]
Letters to Persons in the World, 6,12

François de Sales -- Treatise on the Love of God, Book 9, ch. 1 [tr. Mackey (1884)]

Dave — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 20:19:04 +0000

Love is the abridgment of all theology.

François de Sales (1567-1622) French bishop, saint, writer [a.k.a. Francis de Sales, b. François de Boisy]
Treatise on the Love of God, Book 9, ch. 1 [tr. Mackey (1884)]
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