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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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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.
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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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O Lord, I do most cheerfully commit all unto Thee.
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God has not chosen to save us without crosses as He has not seen fit to create men at once in the full vigor of manhood, but has suffered them to grow up by degrees amid all the perils and weaknesses of youth.
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I no longer desire anything but to be Thine.
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Make this simple rule the guide of your life: to have no will but God's.
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Pity enlarges the heart.
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Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
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Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies
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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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How can you expect God to speak in that gentle and inward voice which melts the soul, when you are making so much noise with your rapid reflections? Be silent and God will speak again.
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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 more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.
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Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.
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Let us endeavor to commence every enterprise with a pure view to the glory of God, continue it without distraction, and finish it without impatience.
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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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Time spent in prayer is never wasted.
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Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.
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The greatest of all crosses is self. If we die in part every day, we shall have but little to do on the last. These little daily deaths will destroy the power of the final dying.
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