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O God, the creature knows not to what end Thou hast made Him teach him, and write in the depths of his soul that the clay must suffer itself to be shaped at the will of the potter.
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 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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Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer.
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Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.
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You really don't even own the present moment, for even this belongs to God.
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The greater our dread of crosses, the more necessary they are for us.
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In the light of eternity we shall see that what we desired would have been fatal to us, and that what we would have avoided was essential to our well-being.
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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.
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Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.
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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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Listen less to your own thoughts and more to God's thoughts.
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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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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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That love of self, which the world advocates, is a thousand times more dangerous than any poison.
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