Christian quotations by Don Bosco: Perseverance

Don't be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing. Consider the ravens: they don't sow, they don't reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds! Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his height? If then you aren't able to do even the least things, why are you anxious about the rest? Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don't toil, neither do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if this is how God clothes the grass in the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith? Don't seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious. For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things. But seek God's Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.

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	Christian quotations by Don Bosco: Perseverance

John Bosco photo Christian quotations by Don Bosco "[In a moment of delirium, as he was dying]
Pray! Pray, but with faith – with living faith! Courage! Onward, ever onward!"

"The chief thing is to take the burden on one’s shoulders. As you press forward, it soon shakes down and the load is evenly distributed."

"Do good while you still have time."

"Let us strive to fair well in this life and in the next."

"We may never put down our cross, day or night, not even for an hour or a minute. For, as our Divine Savior said in the Holy Gospel, "If anyone wants to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me." (Luke 9:23)"

"Be neither stubborn nor fickle. I have always noticed that fickle-minded people usually fail in all they do."

"Remember, God does not pay us for results, but for effort."

"The Oratory of St. Francis de Sales was born out of hard knocks, grew under hard knocks, and continues to thrive under hard knocks. [1862]"

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