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Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.
Francois Fenelon
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Francois Fenelon
Age: 63 †
Born: 1651
Born: August 6
Died: 1715
Died: January 7
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God is so good that He only awaits our desire to overwhelm us with the gift of himself.
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Let us endeavor to commence every enterprise with a pure view to the glory of God, continue it without distraction, and finish it without impatience.
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O God, the creature knows not to what end Thou hast made Him teach him, and write in the depths of his soul that the clay must suffer itself to be shaped at the will of the potter.
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Blessed are the poor in spirit. Blessed are they who are stripped of every thing, even of their own wills, that they may no longer belong to themselves.
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I no longer desire anything but to be Thine.
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Oh! how seldom the soul is silent, in order that God may speak.
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