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Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.

Francois Fenelon

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Francois Fenelon
Age: 63 †
Born: 1651
Born: August 6
Died: 1715
Died: January 7
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Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.
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The realization of God's presence is the one sovereign remedy against temptation.
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A cross borne in simplicity, without the interference of self-love to augment it, is only half a cross. Suffering in this simplicity of love, we are not only happy in spile of the cross, but because of it for love is pleased in suffering for the Well Beloved, and the cross which forms us into His image is a consoling bond of love.
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Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
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God bears with imperfect beings even when they resist His goodness. We ought to imitate this merciful patience and endurance. It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.
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You really don't even own the present moment, for even this belongs to God.
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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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God never ceases to speak to us, but the noise of the world without and the tumult of our passions within bewilder us and prevent us from listening to him
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How can you expect God to speak in that gentle and inward voice which melts the soul, when you are making so much noise with your rapid reflections? Be silent and God will speak again.
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Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul.
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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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Our piety must be weak and imperfect if it do not conquer our fear of death.
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