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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.
Francois Fenelon
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Francois Fenelon
Age: 63 †
Born: 1651
Born: August 6
Died: 1715
Died: January 7
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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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Frequently a big advantage can be gained by knowing how to give in at the right moment.
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Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul.
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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 youth who, like a woman, loves to adorn his person, has renounced all claim to wisdom and to glory glory is due to those only who dare to associate with pain, and have trampled pleasure under their feet.
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How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.
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How can you expect God to speak in that gentle and inward voice which melts the soul, when you are making so much noise with your rapid reflections? Be silent and God will speak again.
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Our piety must be weak and imperfect if it do not conquer our fear of death.
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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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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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O Lord, I do most cheerfully commit all unto Thee.
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Oh! how seldom the soul is silent, in order that God may speak.
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A cross borne in simplicity, without the interference of self-love to augment it, is only half a cross. Suffering in this simplicity of love, we are not only happy in spile of the cross, but because of it for love is pleased in suffering for the Well Beloved, and the cross which forms us into His image is a consoling bond of love.
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To pray is to desire but it is to desire what God would have us desire.
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True love goes ever straight forward, not in its own strength, but esteeming itself as nothing. Then indeed we are truly happy. The cross is no longer a cross when there is no self to suffer under it.
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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.
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