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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.
Francois Fenelon
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Francois Fenelon
Age: 63 †
Born: 1651
Born: August 6
Died: 1715
Died: January 7
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God felt, God tasted and enjoyed is indeed God, but God with those gifts which flatter the soul, God in darkness, in privation, in forsakenness, in sensibility, is so much God, that he is so to speak God bare and alone. Shall we fear this death, which is to produce in us the true divine life of grace?
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Simplicity is that grace which frees the soul from all unnecessary reflections upon itself.
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We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.
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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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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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The realization of God's presence is the one sovereign remedy against temptation.
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