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How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.
Francois Fenelon
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Francois Fenelon
Age: 63 †
Born: 1651
Born: August 6
Died: 1715
Died: January 7
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If we had strength and faith enough to trust ourselves entirely to God and follow Him simply wherever He should lead us, we should have no need of any great effort of mind to reach perfection.
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The great point is to renounce your own wisdom by simplicity of walk, and to be ready to give up the favor, esteem, and approbation of every one, whenever the path in which God leads you passes that way.
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Pity enlarges the heart.
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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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There is never any peace for those who resist God.
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It is better to die than to tell a lie
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Resign every forbidden joy restrain every wish that is not referred to God's will banish all eager desires, all anxiety desire only the will of God seek him alone and supremely, and you will find peace.
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We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.
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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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Make this simple rule the guide of your life: to have no will but God's.
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The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.
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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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Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer.
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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 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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Our piety must be weak and imperfect if it do not conquer our fear of death.
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Mankind, by the perverse depravity of their nature, esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it is possessed, and torment themselves with fruitless wishes for that which is beyond their reach.
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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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Faith is letting down our nets into the transparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall draw.
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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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