"Be patient with everyone, but above all, with yourself. I mean, do not be disheartened by your imperfections, but always rise up with fresh courage. I am glad you make a fresh beginning daily; there is no other means of attaining the spiritual life than by continually beginning again, and never thinking that we have done enough. How are we to be patient in bearing with our neighbour’s faults, if we are impatient in hearing our own? He who is fretted by his own failings will not correct them; all profitable correction comes from a calm, peaceful mind."
More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_de_Sales
Art by Ethel Sowers http://www.bookroomartpress.co.uk/biographies/29.html
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