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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.
Francois Fenelon
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Francois Fenelon
Age: 63 †
Born: 1651
Born: August 6
Died: 1715
Died: January 7
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Listen less to your own thoughts and more to God's thoughts.
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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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The greatest of all crosses is self. If we die in part every day, we shall have but little to do on the last. These little daily deaths will destroy the power of the final dying.
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This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave it is but misery, vanity, and folly a phantom--the very fashion of which passeth away.
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We are not to choose the manner in which our blessings shall be bestowed.
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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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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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Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.
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God bears with imperfect beings even when they resist His goodness. We ought to imitate this merciful patience and endurance. It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.
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Oh! how seldom the soul is silent, in order that God may speak.
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God is so good that He only awaits our desire to overwhelm us with the gift of himself.
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Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer.
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Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.
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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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The wind of God is always blowing... but you must hoist your sail.
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Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.
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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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If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.
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Time spent in prayer is never wasted.
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All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
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