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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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If we had strength and faith enough to trust ourselves entirely to God and follow Him simply wherever He should lead us, we should have no need of any great effort of mind to reach perfection.
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Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.
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Time spent in prayer is never wasted.
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God bears with imperfect beings even when they resist His goodness. We ought to imitate this merciful patience and endurance. It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.
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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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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.
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Blessed are the poor in spirit. Blessed are they who are stripped of every thing, even of their own wills, that they may no longer belong to themselves.
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O Lord, I do most cheerfully commit all unto Thee.
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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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How desirable is this simplicity! Who will give it to me? I will quit all else it is the pearl of great price.
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Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.
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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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True piety hath in it nothing weak, nothing sad, nothing constrained. It enlarges the heart it is simple, free, and attractive.
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Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a simple movement of heart toward God will renew our powers. Whatever he may demand of us, he will give us at the moment the strength and courage that we need.
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God, who is liberal in all his other gifts, shows us, by the wise economy of His providence, how circumspect we ought to be in the management of our time, for He never gives us two moments together.
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To pray is to desire but it is to desire what God would have us desire.
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Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer.
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There is no true and constant gentleness without humility. While we are so fond of ourselves, we are easily offended with others. Let us be persuaded that nothing is due to us, and then nothing will disturb us. Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we will become indulgent towards those of others.
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Despondency is not a state of humility on the contrary, it is the vexation and despair of a cowardly pride--nothing is worse whether we stumble or whether we fall, we must only think of rising again and going on in our course.
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