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Francois Fenelon
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Francois Fenelon
Age: 63 †
Born: 1651
Born: August 6
Died: 1715
Died: January 7
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More quotes by Francois Fenelon
Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.
Francois Fenelon
No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades it only makes hypocrites.
Francois Fenelon
Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a simple movement of heart toward God will renew our powers. Whatever he may demand of us, he will give us at the moment the strength and courage that we need.
Francois Fenelon
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.
Francois Fenelon
Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul.
Francois Fenelon
True piety hath in it nothing weak, nothing sad, nothing constrained. It enlarges the heart it is simple, free, and attractive.
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
Speak, move, act in peace.
Francois Fenelon
The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls.
Francois Fenelon
The greater our dread of crosses, the more necessary they are for us.
Francois Fenelon
If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.
Francois Fenelon
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.
Francois Fenelon
The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.
Francois Fenelon
Simplicity is that grace which frees the soul from all unnecessary reflections upon itself.
Francois Fenelon
There is never any peace for those who resist God.
Francois Fenelon
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.
Francois Fenelon
We may be sure that it is the love of God only that can make us come out of self. If His powerful hand did not sustain us, we should not know how to take the first step in that direction.
Francois Fenelon
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
Francois Fenelon
If we were faultless, we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate. If we were to acknowledge honestly that we have not virtue enough to bear patiently with our neighbor's weaknesses, we should show our own imperfection, and this alarms our vanity.
Francois Fenelon
Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.
Francois Fenelon
