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You really don't even own the present moment, for even this belongs to God.
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 greater our dread of crosses, the more necessary they are for us.
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If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.
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Do we accustom ourselves to see all things in the light of faith? Do we correct all our judgments by it? Alas! The greater part of Christians think and act like mere heathens if we judge (as we justly may) of their faith by their practice, we must conclude they have no faith at all.
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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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Time spent in prayer is never wasted.
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Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.
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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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Listen less to your own thoughts and more to God's thoughts.
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Let gratitude for the past inspire us with trust for the future.
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The great point is to renounce your own wisdom by simplicity of walk, and to be ready to give up the favor, esteem, and approbation of every one, whenever the path in which God leads you passes that way.
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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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Faith is letting down our nets into the transparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall draw.
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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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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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A cross borne in simplicity, without the interference of self-love to augment it, is only half a cross. Suffering in this simplicity of love, we are not only happy in spile of the cross, but because of it for love is pleased in suffering for the Well Beloved, and the cross which forms us into His image is a consoling bond of love.
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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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Mankind, by the perverse depravity of their nature, esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it is possessed, and torment themselves with fruitless wishes for that which is beyond their reach.
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Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
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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.
Francois Fenelon
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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