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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.
Francois Fenelon
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Francois Fenelon
Age: 63 †
Born: 1651
Born: August 6
Died: 1715
Died: January 7
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The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls.
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Pure love is in the will alone it is no sentimental love, for the imagination has no part in it it loves, if we may so express it, without feeling, as faith believes without seeing.
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When you come to be sensibly touched, the scales will fall from your eyes and by the penetrating eyes of love you will discern that which your other eyes will never see.
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Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.
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Faith is letting down our nets into the transparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall draw.
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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.
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It is this unquiet self-love that renders us so sensitive. The sick man, who sleeps ill, thinks the night long. We exaggerate, from cowardice, all the evils which we encounter they are great, but our sensibility increases them. The true way to bear them is to yield ourselves up with confidence to God.
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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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All wars are civil ones for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.
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The greater our dread of crosses, the more necessary they are for us.
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Oh! how seldom the soul is silent, in order that God may speak.
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