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All wars are civil ones for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.
Francois Fenelon
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Francois Fenelon
Age: 63 †
Born: 1651
Born: August 6
Died: 1715
Died: January 7
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All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
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O God, the creature knows not to what end Thou hast made Him teach him, and write in the depths of his soul that the clay must suffer itself to be shaped at the will of the potter.
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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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Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.
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Nothing marks so much the solid advancement of a soul, as the view of one's wretchedness without anxiety and without discouragement.
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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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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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How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.
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There is no real elevation of mind in a contempt of little things it is, on the contrary, from too narrow views that we consider those things of little importance which have in fact such extensive consequences.
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We are not to choose the manner in which our blessings shall be bestowed.
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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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Make this simple rule the guide of your life: to have no will but God's.
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As long as anything in this world means anything to you, your freedom is only a word. You are like a bird that is held by a leash you can only fly so far.
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God would behold in you a simplicity which will contain so much the more of His wisdom as it contains less of your own.
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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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O Lord, I do most cheerfully commit all unto Thee.
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Time spent in prayer is never wasted.
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God's treasury where He keeps His children's gifts will be like many a mother's store of relics of her children, full of things of no value to others, but precious in His eyes for the love's sake that was in them.
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You really don't even own the present moment, for even this belongs to God.
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It is better to die than to tell a lie
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