Saint Francis de Sales

Memorial of Saint Francis de Sales

You must not only be devout, and love devotion, but you must make it lovable to everyone. Well, you will render it lovable if you render it useful and agreeable. The sick will love your devotion if they are charitably consoled by it; your family will love it if they find you more careful of their welfare, more gentle in little accidents that happen, more kind in correcting, and so on; your husband, if he sees that as your devotion increases you are more devoted in his regard, and sweet in your love to him; if he sees that as your devotion increases you are more devoted in his regard, and sweet in your love to him: your parents and friends if they perceive in you more generosity, tolerance, and condescension toward their wills, when not against the will of God. In short, you must, as far as possible, make your devotion attractive...

Saint Francis de Sales

from:"Thy Will Be Done: letters to persons in the world"