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True piety hath in it nothing weak, nothing sad, nothing constrained. It enlarges the heart it is simple, free, and attractive.

Francois Fenelon

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Francois Fenelon
Age: 63 †
Born: 1651
Born: August 6
Died: 1715
Died: January 7
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Good taste rejects excessive nicety.
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I no longer desire anything but to be Thine.
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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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The realization of God's presence is the one sovereign remedy against temptation.
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O Lord, I do most cheerfully commit all unto Thee.
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Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.
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All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.
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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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There is nothing that is more dangerous to your own salvation, more unworthy of God and more harmful to your own happiness, than that you should be content to remain as you are.
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Let us endeavor to commence every enterprise with a pure view to the glory of God, continue it without distraction, and finish it without impatience.
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The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.
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Speak, move, act in peace.
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It is better to die than to tell a lie
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The greatest defect of common education is, that we are in the habit of putting pleasure all on one side, and weariness on the other all weariness in study, all pleasure in idleness.
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I would have every minister of the gospel address his audience with the zeal of a friend, with the generous energy of a father, and with the exuberant affection of a mother.
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