Salesian Quotes for June

“Salesian Spirituality is primarily a matter of the conversion of the
heart. It is therefore something interior.”
North American Salesian Network

“Saint Francis de Sales was inspired by the words of Christ, “Learn from me for I am meek and humble of heart.”
Mt: 11,29

Could we but once hear the divine praises as they pour from His Sacred Heart—only think of
the joy we should know, only think how our hearts would leap heavenwards, to hear that praise
for ever.
Treatise on the Love of God V, 11

Since the heart is the source of actions, as the heart is, so they are… I wish, therefore, dear Philothea, to engrave and inscribe on your heart, before everything else, this holy, sacred maxim, LIVE JESUS!
…for whoever has Jesus in his heart will soon have him in all his outward ways.
Introduction to the Devout Life III, 23

What love have you for your own heart? …You owe it his care, in order to help it and obtain
help for it when it is tormented by passions, and to lay all else aside for that.
Introduction Devout Life V, 7