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All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.
Francois Fenelon
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Francois Fenelon
Age: 63 †
Born: 1651
Born: August 6
Died: 1715
Died: January 7
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The greatest defect of common education is, that we are in the habit of putting pleasure all on one side, and weariness on the other all weariness in study, all pleasure in idleness.
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Oh! how seldom the soul is silent, in order that God may speak.
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How different the peace of God from that of the world! It calms the passions, preserves the purity of the conscience, is inseparable from righteousness, unites us to God and strengthens us against temptations. The peace of the soul consists in an absolute resignation to the will of God.
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Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain.
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Let gratitude for the past inspire us with trust for the future.
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Above all, live in the present moment and God will give you all the grace you need.
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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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God's treasury where He keeps His children's gifts will be like many a mother's store of relics of her children, full of things of no value to others, but precious in His eyes for the love's sake that was in them.
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We are never less alone than when we are in the society of a single, faithful friend never less deserted than when we are carried in tne arms of the All-Powerful.
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O Lord, I do most cheerfully commit all unto Thee.
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The most essential point is lowliness.
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So long as we are full of self we are shocked at the faults of others. Let us think often of our own sin, and we shall be lenient to the sins of others.
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Do we accustom ourselves to see all things in the light of faith? Do we correct all our judgments by it? Alas! The greater part of Christians think and act like mere heathens if we judge (as we justly may) of their faith by their practice, we must conclude they have no faith at all.
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This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave it is but misery, vanity, and folly a phantom--the very fashion of which passeth away.
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When kings interfere in matters of religion, they enslave instead of protecting it.
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Despondency is not a state of humility on the contrary, it is the vexation and despair of a cowardly pride--nothing is worse whether we stumble or whether we fall, we must only think of rising again and going on in our course.
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Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer.
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Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.
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The realization of God's presence is the one sovereign remedy against temptation.
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All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
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