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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
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Francois Fenelon
Age: 63 †
Born: 1651
Born: August 6
Died: 1715
Died: January 7
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You can often help others more by correcting your own faults than theirs. Remember, and you should, because of your own experience, that allowing God to correct your faults is not easy. Be patient with people, wait for God to work with them as He wills.
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God felt, God tasted and enjoyed is indeed God, but God with those gifts which flatter the soul, God in darkness, in privation, in forsakenness, in sensibility, is so much God, that he is so to speak God bare and alone. Shall we fear this death, which is to produce in us the true divine life of grace?
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The greater our dread of crosses, the more necessary they are for us.
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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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We are not to choose the manner in which our blessings shall be bestowed.
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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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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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Real friends are our greatest joy and our greatest sorrow. It were almost to be wished that all true and faithful friends should expire on the same day.
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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.
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Listen less to your own thoughts and more to God's thoughts.
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Frequently a big advantage can be gained by knowing how to give in at the right moment.
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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.
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Oh! how seldom the soul is silent, in order that God may speak.
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I am not in the least surprised that your impression of death becomes more lively, in proportion as age and infirmity bring it nearer. God makes use of this rough trial to undeceive us in respect to our courage, to make us feel our weakness, and to keep us in all humility in His hands.
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The most essential point is lowliness.
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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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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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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 more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.
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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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