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The wind of God is always blowing... but you must hoist your sail.
Francois Fenelon
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Francois Fenelon
Age: 63 †
Born: 1651
Born: August 6
Died: 1715
Died: January 7
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François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon
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Francis Fenelon
abbé de Fénélon
François Fénelon
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Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.
Francois Fenelon
Pure love is in the will alone it is no sentimental love, for the imagination has no part in it it loves, if we may so express it, without feeling, as faith believes without seeing.
Francois Fenelon
The smallest things become great when God requires them of us they are small only in themselves they are always great when they are done for God.
Francois Fenelon
There is but one way in which God should be loved, and that is to take no step except with Him and for Him, and to follow with a generous self-abandonment every thing which He requires.
Francois Fenelon
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.
Francois Fenelon
I no longer desire anything but to be Thine.
Francois Fenelon
Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
Francois Fenelon
Oh! how seldom the soul is silent, in order that God may speak.
Francois Fenelon
The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls.
Francois Fenelon
To will everything that God wills, and to will it always, in all circumstances and without reservations: that is the kingdom of God which is entirely within.
Francois Fenelon
I would have every minister of the gospel address his audience with the zeal of a friend, with the generous energy of a father, and with the exuberant affection of a mother.
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Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer.
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Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we shall become indulgent toward those of others.
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All wars are civil ones for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.
Francois Fenelon
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.
Francois Fenelon
The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.
Francois Fenelon
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.
Francois Fenelon
To just read the Bible, attend church, and avoid “big” sins-is this passionate, wholehearted love for God?
Francois Fenelon
Good taste rejects excessive nicety.
Francois Fenelon
God felt, God tasted and enjoyed is indeed God, but God with those gifts which flatter the soul, God in darkness, in privation, in forsakenness, in sensibility, is so much God, that he is so to speak God bare and alone. Shall we fear this death, which is to produce in us the true divine life of grace?
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