Quote

We are not to choose the manner in which our blessings shall be bestowed.

Francois Fenelon

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Francois Fenelon
Age: 63 †
Born: 1651
Born: August 6
Died: 1715
Died: January 7
Catholic Priest
Clergyman
Cleric
Philosopher
Poet
Theologian
Writer
François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon
Fénelon
Phenelon
Franz von Fenelon
Francis Fenelon
abbé de Fénélon
François Fénelon
François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon
Manner
Blessing
Choose
Grace
Shall
Bestowed
Blessings

More quotes by Francois Fenelon

Image
Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.
Francois Fenelon
Image
God's treasury where He keeps His children's gifts will be like many a mother's store of relics of her children, full of things of no value to others, but precious in His eyes for the love's sake that was in them.
Francois Fenelon
Image
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.
Francois Fenelon
Image
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.
Francois Fenelon
Image
As to our friend , I pray God to bestow upon him a simplicity that shall give him peace . Happy are they indeed who can bear their sufferings in the enjoyment of this simple peace and perfect acquiesence in the will of God.
Francois Fenelon
Image
The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.
Francois Fenelon
Image
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.
Francois Fenelon
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Let gratitude for the past inspire us with trust for the future.
Francois Fenelon
Image
When kings interfere in matters of religion, they enslave instead of protecting it.
Francois Fenelon
Image
The greater our dread of crosses, the more necessary they are for us.
Francois Fenelon
Image
O Lord, I do most cheerfully commit all unto Thee.
Francois Fenelon
Image
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
Image
Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
Francois Fenelon
Image
Speak, move, act in peace.
Francois Fenelon
Image
Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.
Francois Fenelon
Image
In the light of eternity we shall see that what we desired would have been fatal to us, and that what we would have avoided was essential to our well-being.
Francois Fenelon
Image
Good taste rejects excessive nicety.
Francois Fenelon
Image
It is often our own imperfection which makes us reprove the imperfection of others a sharp-sighted self-love of others
Francois Fenelon