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Speak, move, act in peace.
Francois Fenelon
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Francois Fenelon
Age: 63 †
Born: 1651
Born: August 6
Died: 1715
Died: January 7
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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.
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
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
Listen less to your own thoughts and more to God's thoughts.
Francois Fenelon
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
Francois Fenelon
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.
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.
Francois Fenelon
God bears with imperfect beings even when they resist His goodness. We ought to imitate this merciful patience and endurance. It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.
Francois Fenelon
There are two principal points of attention necessary for the preservation of this constant spirit of prayer which unites us with God we must continually seek to cherish it, and we must avoid everything that tends to make us lose it.
Francois Fenelon
Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer.
Francois Fenelon
Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.
Francois Fenelon
All wars are civil ones for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.
Francois Fenelon
I no longer desire anything but to be Thine.
Francois Fenelon
When kings interfere in matters of religion, they enslave instead of protecting it.
Francois Fenelon
The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.
Francois Fenelon
How desirable is this simplicity! Who will give it to me? I will quit all else it is the pearl of great price.
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
How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.
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
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.
Francois Fenelon
