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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.
Francois Fenelon
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Francois Fenelon
Age: 63 †
Born: 1651
Born: August 6
Died: 1715
Died: January 7
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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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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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Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.
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Listen less to your own thoughts and more to God's thoughts.
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All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
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Real friends are our greatest joy and our greatest sorrow. It were almost to be wished that all true and faithful friends should expire on the same day.
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We must truly serve those whom we appear to command we must bear with their imperfections, correct them with gentleness and patience, and lead them in the way to heaven.
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Pity enlarges the heart.
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Let gratitude for the past inspire us with trust for the future.
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The gifts of God are not to be rejected on account of the channel that brings them.
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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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There is but one way in which God should be loved, and that is to take no step except with Him and for Him, and to follow with a generous self-abandonment every thing which He requires.
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I no longer desire anything but to be Thine.
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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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The realization of God's presence is the one sovereign remedy against temptation.
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All wars are civil ones for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.
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We are not to choose the manner in which our blessings shall be bestowed.
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