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We are never less alone than when we are in the society of a single, faithful friend never less deserted than when we are carried in tne arms of the All-Powerful.
Francois Fenelon
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Francois Fenelon
Age: 63 †
Born: 1651
Born: August 6
Died: 1715
Died: January 7
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The great point is to renounce your own wisdom by simplicity of walk, and to be ready to give up the favor, esteem, and approbation of every one, whenever the path in which God leads you passes that way.
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God never ceases to speak to us, but the noise of the world without and the tumult of our passions within bewilder us and prevent us from listening to him
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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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To pray is to desire but it is to desire what God would have us desire.
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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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Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we shall become indulgent toward those of others.
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We must avoid fastidiousness neatness, when it is moderate, is a virtue but when it is carried to an extreme, it narrows the mind.
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Simplicity is that grace which frees the soul from all unnecessary reflections upon itself.
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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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The history of the world suggests that without love of God there is little likelihood of a love for man that does not become corrupt.
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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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Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain.
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The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls.
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Good taste rejects excessive nicety.
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The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.
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Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies
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The realization of God's presence is the one sovereign remedy against temptation.
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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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All wars are civil ones for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.
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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