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

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 Christian life is a long and continual tendency of our hearts toward that eternal goodness which we desire on earth. All our happiness consists in thirsting for it. Now this thirst is prayer. Ever desire to approach your Creator, and you will never cease to pray. Do not think it necessary to pronounce many words.
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The history of the world suggests that without love of God there is little likelihood of a love for man that does not become corrupt.
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Time spent in prayer is never wasted.
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You really don't even own the present moment, for even this belongs to God.
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When kings interfere in matters of religion, they enslave instead of protecting it.
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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.
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There is nothing that is more dangerous to your own salvation, more unworthy of God and more harmful to your own happiness, than that you should be content to remain as you are.
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O Lord, I do most cheerfully commit all unto Thee.
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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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It is better to die than to tell a lie
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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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True love goes ever straight forward, not in its own strength, but esteeming itself as nothing. Then indeed we are truly happy. The cross is no longer a cross when there is no self to suffer under it.
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Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.
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To pray is to desire but it is to desire what God would have us desire.
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Oh! how seldom the soul is silent, in order that God may speak.
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No more restless uncertainties, no more anxious desires, no more impatience at the place we are in for it is God who has placed us there, and who holds us in his arms. Can we be unsafe where he has placed us?
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O God, the creature knows not to what end Thou hast made Him teach him, and write in the depths of his soul that the clay must suffer itself to be shaped at the will of the potter.
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Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we shall become indulgent toward those of others.
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Let gratitude for the past inspire us with trust for the future.
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