Maxims and counsels of St. Francis de Sales for every day of the year

by Saint de Sales Francis

356.

Great saints never are guilty of mortal sin, but only of useless, ill-timed, imprudent, and rude actions; slight acts of impatience, slight excesses of joy, of mirth, slight failings in vanity, and other like faults are useless movements and irregularities into which the just fall seven times—that is, very often.