Quote

When kings interfere in matters of religion, they enslave instead of protecting it.

Francois Fenelon

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Francois Fenelon
Age: 63 †
Born: 1651
Born: August 6
Died: 1715
Died: January 7
Catholic Priest
Clergyman
Cleric
Philosopher
Poet
Theologian
Writer
François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon
Fénelon
Phenelon
Franz von Fenelon
Francis Fenelon
abbé de Fénélon
François Fénelon
François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon
Matters
Kings
Instead
Religion
Matter
Enslave
Protecting
Interfere

More quotes by Francois Fenelon

Image
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.
Francois Fenelon
Image
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.
Francois Fenelon
Image
Resign every forbidden joy restrain every wish that is not referred to God's will banish all eager desires, all anxiety desire only the will of God seek him alone and supremely, and you will find peace.
Francois Fenelon
Image
Above all, live in the present moment and God will give you all the grace you need.
Francois Fenelon
Image
We may be sure that it is the love of God only that can make us come out of self. If His powerful hand did not sustain us, we should not know how to take the first step in that direction.
Francois Fenelon
Image
We are never less alone than when we are in the society of a single, faithful friend never less deserted than when we are carried in tne arms of the All-Powerful.
Francois Fenelon
Image
Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.
Francois Fenelon
Image
How can you expect God to speak in that gentle and inward voice which melts the soul, when you are making so much noise with your rapid reflections? Be silent and God will speak again.
Francois Fenelon
Image
If we had strength and faith enough to trust ourselves entirely to God and follow Him simply wherever He should lead us, we should have no need of any great effort of mind to reach perfection.
Francois Fenelon
Image
Let gratitude for the past inspire us with trust for the future.
Francois Fenelon
Image
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.
Francois Fenelon
Image
Simplicity is that grace which frees the soul from all unnecessary reflections upon itself.
Francois Fenelon
Image
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
Francois Fenelon
Image
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.
Francois Fenelon
Image
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
Image
I no longer desire anything but to be Thine.
Francois Fenelon
Image
Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.
Francois Fenelon
Image
Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer.
Francois Fenelon
Image
Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.
Francois Fenelon
Image
Good taste rejects excessive nicety.
Francois Fenelon