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Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
Francois Fenelon
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Francois Fenelon
Age: 63 †
Born: 1651
Born: August 6
Died: 1715
Died: January 7
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More quotes by Francois Fenelon
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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Good taste rejects excessive nicety.
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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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God would behold in you a simplicity which will contain so much the more of His wisdom as it contains less of your own.
Francois Fenelon
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.
Francois Fenelon
It is often our own imperfection which makes us reprove the imperfection of others a sharp-sighted self-love of others
Francois Fenelon
Mankind, by the perverse depravity of their nature, esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it is possessed, and torment themselves with fruitless wishes for that which is beyond their reach.
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God is our true Friend, who always gives us the counsel and comfort we need. Our danger lies in resisting Him so it is essential that we acquire the habit of hearkening to His voice, or keeping silence within, and listening so as to lose nothing of what He says to us.
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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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You really don't even own the present moment, for even this belongs to God.
Francois Fenelon
Listen less to your own thoughts and more to God's thoughts.
Francois Fenelon
Let gratitude for the past inspire us with trust for the future.
Francois Fenelon
Time spent in prayer is never wasted.
Francois Fenelon
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
Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.
Francois Fenelon
The smallest things become great when God requires them of us they are small only in themselves they are always great when they are done for God.
Francois Fenelon
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.
Francois Fenelon
Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.
Francois Fenelon
The wind of God is always blowing... but you must hoist your sail.
Francois Fenelon
There is never any peace for those who resist God.
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