Quotemeal: Jul. 15th, 1947

Tuesday, July 15, 1947

"We must not be unjust and require from ourselves what is not in ourselves. Do not desire not to be what you are, but desire to be very well what you are."
— François de Sales

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"Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace."
— John Dryden —
"Purity of heart and simplicity are of great force with Almighty God, who is in purity most singular, and of nature most simple."
— St. Gregory the Great —
"If you find God with ease, perhaps it is not God you have found."
— Thomas Merton —
"If I am not [in a state of grace], God bring me there; if I am, God keep me there!"
— Joan of Arc —

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Illustration of François de Sales — "We must not be unjust and require from ourselves what is not in ourselves. Do not desire not to be what you are, but desire to be very well what you are."

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