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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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Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.
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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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All wars are civil ones for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.
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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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God is so good that He only awaits our desire to overwhelm us with the gift of himself.
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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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Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.
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The greater our dread of crosses, the more necessary they are for us.
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The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.
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God is our true Friend, who always gives us the counsel and comfort we need. Our danger lies in resisting Him so it is essential that we acquire the habit of hearkening to His voice, or keeping silence within, and listening so as to lose nothing of what He says to us.
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Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul.
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O Lord! take my heart, for I cannot give it and when Thou hast it, O! keep it, for I cannot keep it for Thee and save me in spite of myself, for Jesus Christ's sake.
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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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The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.
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All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
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We must truly serve those whom we appear to command we must bear with their imperfections, correct them with gentleness and patience, and lead them in the way to heaven.
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It is often our own imperfection which makes us reprove the imperfection of others a sharp-sighted self-love of others
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Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
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Blessed are the poor in spirit. Blessed are they who are stripped of every thing, even of their own wills, that they may no longer belong to themselves.
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Our piety must be weak and imperfect if it do not conquer our fear of death.
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