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That love of self, which the world advocates, is a thousand times more dangerous than any poison.
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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Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
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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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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 more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.
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When kings interfere in matters of religion, they enslave instead of protecting it.
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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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All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.
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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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Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.
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Listen less to your own thoughts and more to God's thoughts.
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We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.
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The wind of God is always blowing... but you must hoist your sail.
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How different the peace of God from that of the world! It calms the passions, preserves the purity of the conscience, is inseparable from righteousness, unites us to God and strengthens us against temptations. The peace of the soul consists in an absolute resignation to the will of God.
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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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To pray is to desire but it is to desire what God would have us desire.
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Good taste rejects excessive nicety.
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Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul.
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The greatest of all crosses is self. If we die in part every day, we shall have but little to do on the last. These little daily deaths will destroy the power of the final dying.
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The greatest defect of common education is, that we are in the habit of putting pleasure all on one side, and weariness on the other all weariness in study, all pleasure in idleness.
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