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Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.
Francois Fenelon
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Francois Fenelon
Age: 63 †
Born: 1651
Born: August 6
Died: 1715
Died: January 7
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How different the peace of God from that of the world! It calms the passions, preserves the purity of the conscience, is inseparable from righteousness, unites us to God and strengthens us against temptations. The peace of the soul consists in an absolute resignation to 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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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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Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.
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How desirable is this simplicity! Who will give it to me? I will quit all else it is the pearl of great price.
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