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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.
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 would behold in you a simplicity which will contain so much the more of His wisdom as it contains less of your own.
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Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.
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How desirable is this simplicity! Who will give it to me? I will quit all else it is the pearl of great price.
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The wind of God is always blowing... but you must hoist your sail.
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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.
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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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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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How different the peace of God from that of the world! It calms the passions, preserves the purity of the conscience, is inseparable from righteousness, unites us to God and strengthens us against temptations. The peace of the soul consists in an absolute resignation to the will of God.
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Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies
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There are two principal points of attention necessary for the preservation of this constant spirit of prayer which unites us with God we must continually seek to cherish it, and we must avoid everything that tends to make us lose it.
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Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
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You really don't even own the present moment, for even this belongs to God.
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Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul.
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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.
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The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.
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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.
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Our piety must be weak and imperfect if it do not conquer our fear of death.
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Pity enlarges the heart.
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This is the love that does all things that brings to pass even the evils we suffer so shaping them that they are but instruments of preparing the good which, as yet, has not arrived.
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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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