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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
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Francois Fenelon
Age: 63 †
Born: 1651
Born: August 6
Died: 1715
Died: January 7
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I am not in the least surprised that your impression of death becomes more lively, in proportion as age and infirmity bring it nearer. God makes use of this rough trial to undeceive us in respect to our courage, to make us feel our weakness, and to keep us in all humility in His hands.
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The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.
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Make this simple rule the guide of your life: to have no will but God's.
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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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Good taste rejects excessive nicety.
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God would behold in you a simplicity which will contain so much the more of His wisdom as it contains less of your own.
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In the light of eternity we shall see that what we desired would have been fatal to us, and that what we would have avoided was essential to our well-being.
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