Francis de Sales

Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622) was a French Catholic bishop and writer known for his Introduction to the Devout Life. He was canonized by Pope Alexander VII in 1665 and declared Doctor of the Church by Pope Pius IX in 1877.

Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you.... Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.

Introduction to the Devout Life

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Quotes

Now, if no other work were commanded but chastity alone, we would all have enough to do with this one; so perilous and raging a vice is unchastity.

Martin Luther

We keep on turning [the kaleidoscope of ideas] and making new combinations . . . ; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.

Mark Twain

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

Ulysses S. Grant

If you buy the story that everything terrible just happened on its own, with no personal responsibility on the part of the victim, you deny that person all agency. . . . In this manner, you strip him or her of all power.

Jordan Peterson

All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves. . . .

Aristotle

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

Holy Bible

Compromising is a sure sign of not possessing the truth. When a man yields in matters of ideals, of honor or of faith, that man is without ideals, without honor, and without faith.

Josemaría Escrivá

[Americans posess] the advantage of being armed . . . over the people of almost every other nation.

James Madison

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.

Milton Friedman

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

Albert Einstein

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have yet to be discovered.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

But if you warn the wicked to turn from his way, and he does not turn from his way; he shall die in his iniquity, but you will have saved your life.

Holy Bible

It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones.

John Adams

You have to risk failure to move forward.

An Wang

In democracies, the welfare state is the beginning, and the police state the end. The two merge sooner or later, in all experience, and for obvious reasons.

Melchior Palyi

The way to learn to earn a living is to go at it and earn a living.

Elbert Hubbard

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again.

Sylvia Plath

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business; and it gives in the long run a net result of zero.

Thomas Carlyle

There can be only one true religion, because a thing cannot be false and true at the same time, and, therefore, all religions that contradict the teaching of the true Church must teach falsehood.

U.S. Conf. of Catholic Bishops

Every now and then a man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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