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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.
Francois Fenelon
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Francois Fenelon
Age: 63 †
Born: 1651
Born: August 6
Died: 1715
Died: January 7
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This is the love that does all things that brings to pass even the evils we suffer so shaping them that they are but instruments of preparing the good which, as yet, has not arrived.
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The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.
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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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Time spent in prayer is never wasted.
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Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer.
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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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The Christian life is a long and continual tendency of our hearts toward that eternal goodness which we desire on earth. All our happiness consists in thirsting for it. Now this thirst is prayer. Ever desire to approach your Creator, and you will never cease to pray. Do not think it necessary to pronounce many words.
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This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave it is but misery, vanity, and folly a phantom--the very fashion of which passeth away.
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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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No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades it only makes hypocrites.
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Speak, move, act in peace.
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Oh! how seldom the soul is silent, in order that God may speak.
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Pity enlarges the heart.
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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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Faith is letting down our nets into the transparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall draw.
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I would have every minister of the gospel address his audience with the zeal of a friend, with the generous energy of a father, and with the exuberant affection of a mother.
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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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Listen less to your own thoughts and more to God's thoughts.
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I no longer desire anything but to be Thine.
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Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.
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