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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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Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul.
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God has not chosen to save us without crosses as He has not seen fit to create men at once in the full vigor of manhood, but has suffered them to grow up by degrees amid all the perils and weaknesses of youth.
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Our piety must be weak and imperfect if it do not conquer our fear of death.
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The history of the world suggests that without love of God there is little likelihood of a love for man that does not become corrupt.
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We may be sure that it is the love of God only that can make us come out of self. If His powerful hand did not sustain us, we should not know how to take the first step in that direction.
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Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.
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Faith is letting down our nets into the transparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall draw.
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Pity enlarges the heart.
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I no longer desire anything but to be Thine.
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It is this unquiet self-love that renders us so sensitive. The sick man, who sleeps ill, thinks the night long. We exaggerate, from cowardice, all the evils which we encounter they are great, but our sensibility increases them. The true way to bear them is to yield ourselves up with confidence to God.
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The youth who, like a woman, loves to adorn his person, has renounced all claim to wisdom and to glory glory is due to those only who dare to associate with pain, and have trampled pleasure under their feet.
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Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies
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No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades it only makes hypocrites.
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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.
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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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Speak, move, act in peace.
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It is often our own imperfection which makes us reprove the imperfection of others a sharp-sighted self-love of others
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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.
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When kings interfere in matters of religion, they enslave instead of protecting it.
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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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