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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
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... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.
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If we had strength and faith enough to trust ourselves entirely to God and follow Him simply wherever He should lead us, we should have no need of any great effort of mind to reach perfection.
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Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.
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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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God never ceases to speak to us, but the noise of the world without and the tumult of our passions within bewilder us and prevent us from listening to him
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There is but one way in which God should be loved, and that is to take no step except with Him and for Him, and to follow with a generous self-abandonment every thing which He requires.
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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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The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls.
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Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul.
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To just read the Bible, attend church, and avoid “big” sins-is this passionate, wholehearted love for God?
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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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Faith is letting down our nets into the transparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall draw.
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Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.
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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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Real friends are our greatest joy and our greatest sorrow. It were almost to be wished that all true and faithful friends should expire on the same day.
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Despondency is not a state of humility on the contrary, it is the vexation and despair of a cowardly pride--nothing is worse whether we stumble or whether we fall, we must only think of rising again and going on in our course.
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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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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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So long as we are full of self we are shocked at the faults of others. Let us think often of our own sin, and we shall be lenient to the sins of others.
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I no longer desire anything but to be Thine.
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