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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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François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon
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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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Let gratitude for the past inspire us with trust for the future.
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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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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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Good taste rejects excessive nicety.
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Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer.
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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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As to our friend , I pray God to bestow upon him a simplicity that shall give him peace . Happy are they indeed who can bear their sufferings in the enjoyment of this simple peace and perfect acquiesence in the will of God.
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You can often help others more by correcting your own faults than theirs. Remember, and you should, because of your own experience, that allowing God to correct your faults is not easy. Be patient with people, wait for God to work with them as He wills.
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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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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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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.
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When kings interfere in matters of religion, they enslave instead of protecting it.
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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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The greatest of all crosses is self. If we die in part every day, we shall have but little to do on the last. These little daily deaths will destroy the power of the final dying.
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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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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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The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls.
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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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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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