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Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul.
Francois Fenelon
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Francois Fenelon
Age: 63 †
Born: 1651
Born: August 6
Died: 1715
Died: January 7
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François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon
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abbé de Fénélon
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More quotes by Francois Fenelon
I would have every minister of the gospel address his audience with the zeal of a friend, with the generous energy of a father, and with the exuberant affection of a mother.
Francois Fenelon
If we were faultless, we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate. If we were to acknowledge honestly that we have not virtue enough to bear patiently with our neighbor's weaknesses, we should show our own imperfection, and this alarms our vanity.
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Let gratitude for the past inspire us with trust for the future.
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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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The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls.
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There are two principal points of attention necessary for the preservation of this constant spirit of prayer which unites us with God we must continually seek to cherish it, and we must avoid everything that tends to make us lose it.
Francois Fenelon
Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer.
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
Time spent in prayer is never wasted.
Francois Fenelon
When kings interfere in matters of religion, they enslave instead of protecting it.
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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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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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Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.
Francois Fenelon
To pray is to desire but it is to desire what God would have us desire.
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
Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we shall become indulgent toward those 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.
Francois Fenelon
There is never any peace for those who resist God.
Francois Fenelon
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.
Francois Fenelon
It is better to die than to tell a lie
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