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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.
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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Time spent in prayer is never wasted.
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Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.
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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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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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To will everything that God wills, and to will it always, in all circumstances and without reservations: that is the kingdom of God which is entirely within.
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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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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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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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No more restless uncertainties, no more anxious desires, no more impatience at the place we are in for it is God who has placed us there, and who holds us in his arms. Can we be unsafe where he has placed us?
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We are never less alone than when we are in the society of a single, faithful friend never less deserted than when we are carried in tne arms of the All-Powerful.
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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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Make this simple rule the guide of your life: to have no will but God's.
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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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Pity enlarges the heart.
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True piety hath in it nothing weak, nothing sad, nothing constrained. It enlarges the heart it is simple, free, and attractive.
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The greater our dread of crosses, the more necessary they are for us.
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The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.
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Our piety must be weak and imperfect if it do not conquer our fear of death.
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O Lord, I do most cheerfully commit all unto Thee.
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When kings interfere in matters of religion, they enslave instead of protecting it.
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