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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.
Francois Fenelon
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Francois Fenelon
Age: 63 †
Born: 1651
Born: August 6
Died: 1715
Died: January 7
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The most essential point is lowliness.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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It is this unquiet self-love that renders us so sensitive. The sick man, who sleeps ill, thinks the night long. We exaggerate, from cowardice, all the evils which we encounter they are great, but our sensibility increases them. The true way to bear them is to yield ourselves up with confidence to 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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Above all, live in the present moment and God will give you all the grace you need.
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The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.
Francois Fenelon
The greatest defect of common education is, that we are in the habit of putting pleasure all on one side, and weariness on the other all weariness in study, all pleasure in idleness.
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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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It is better to die than to tell a lie
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Frequently a big advantage can be gained by knowing how to give in at the right moment.
Francois Fenelon
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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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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I no longer desire anything but to be Thine.
Francois Fenelon
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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