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Simplicity is that grace which frees the soul from all unnecessary reflections upon itself.
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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abbé de Fénélon
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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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Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer.
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God is so good that He only awaits our desire to overwhelm us with the gift of himself.
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True piety hath in it nothing weak, nothing sad, nothing constrained. It enlarges the heart it is simple, free, and attractive.
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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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O Lord, I do most cheerfully commit all unto Thee.
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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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We must avoid fastidiousness neatness, when it is moderate, is a virtue but when it is carried to an extreme, it narrows the mind.
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I no longer desire anything but to be Thine.
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Above all, live in the present moment and God will give you all the grace you need.
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Good taste rejects excessive nicety.
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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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This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave it is but misery, vanity, and folly a phantom--the very fashion of which passeth away.
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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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The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.
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The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.
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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.
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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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No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades it only makes hypocrites.
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Time spent in prayer is never wasted.
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