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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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François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon
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Franz von Fenelon
Francis Fenelon
abbé de Fénélon
François Fénelon
François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon
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More quotes by Francois Fenelon
There is nothing that is more dangerous to your own salvation, more unworthy of God and more harmful to your own happiness, than that you should be content to remain as you are.
Francois Fenelon
You can often help others more by correcting your own faults than theirs. Remember, and you should, because of your own experience, that allowing God to correct your faults is not easy. Be patient with people, wait for God to work with them as He wills.
Francois Fenelon
Let gratitude for the past inspire us with trust for the future.
Francois Fenelon
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.
Francois Fenelon
When you come to be sensibly touched, the scales will fall from your eyes and by the penetrating eyes of love you will discern that which your other eyes will never see.
Francois Fenelon
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.
Francois Fenelon
If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.
Francois Fenelon
The youth who, like a woman, loves to adorn his person, has renounced all claim to wisdom and to glory glory is due to those only who dare to associate with pain, and have trampled pleasure under their feet.
Francois Fenelon
Simplicity is that grace which frees the soul from all unnecessary reflections upon itself.
Francois Fenelon
The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls.
Francois Fenelon
We are not to choose the manner in which our blessings shall be bestowed.
Francois Fenelon
No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades it only makes hypocrites.
Francois Fenelon
The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.
Francois Fenelon
Above all, live in the present moment and God will give you all the grace you need.
Francois Fenelon
Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul.
Francois Fenelon
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.
Francois Fenelon
All wars are civil ones for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.
Francois Fenelon
The gifts of God are not to be rejected on account of the channel that brings them.
Francois Fenelon
God would behold in you a simplicity which will contain so much the more of His wisdom as it contains less of your own.
Francois Fenelon
The realization of God's presence is the one sovereign remedy against temptation.
Francois Fenelon
