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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
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Francois Fenelon
Age: 63 †
Born: 1651
Born: August 6
Died: 1715
Died: January 7
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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.
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Nothing marks so much the solid advancement of a soul, as the view of one's wretchedness without anxiety and without discouragement.
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There is no real elevation of mind in a contempt of little things it is, on the contrary, from too narrow views that we consider those things of little importance which have in fact such extensive consequences.
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Let gratitude for the past inspire us with trust for the future.
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Oh! how seldom the soul is silent, in order that God may speak.
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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.
Francois Fenelon
O Lord! take my heart, for I cannot give it and when Thou hast it, O! keep it, for I cannot keep it for Thee and save me in spite of myself, for Jesus Christ's sake.
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Our piety must be weak and imperfect if it do not conquer our fear of death.
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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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That love of self, which the world advocates, is a thousand times more dangerous than any poison.
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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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How desirable is this simplicity! Who will give it to me? I will quit all else it is the pearl of great price.
Francois Fenelon
Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation - speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.
Francois Fenelon
No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades it only makes hypocrites.
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So long as we are full of self we are shocked at the faults of others. Let us think often of our own sin, and we shall be lenient to the sins of others.
Francois Fenelon
Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul.
Francois Fenelon
To pray is to desire but it is to desire what God would have us desire.
Francois Fenelon
The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.
Francois Fenelon
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.
Francois Fenelon
How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.
Francois Fenelon
