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If we had strength and faith enough to trust ourselves entirely to God and follow Him simply wherever He should lead us, we should have no need of any great effort of mind to reach perfection.
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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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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It is often our own imperfection which makes us reprove the imperfection of others a sharp-sighted self-love of others
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You really don't even own the present moment, for even this belongs to God.
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The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls.
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