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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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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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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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I no longer desire anything but to be Thine.
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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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Time spent in prayer is never wasted.
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The gifts of God are not to be rejected on account of the channel that brings them.
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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 is so good that He only awaits our desire to overwhelm us with the gift of himself.
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Simplicity is that grace which frees the soul from all unnecessary reflections upon itself.
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God's treasury where He keeps His children's gifts will be like many a mother's store of relics of her children, full of things of no value to others, but precious in His eyes for the love's sake that was in them.
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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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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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Make this simple rule the guide of your life: to have no will but God's.
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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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Frequently a big advantage can be gained by knowing how to give in at the right moment.
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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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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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Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we shall become indulgent toward those of others.
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Our piety must be weak and imperfect if it do not conquer our fear of death.
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