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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?
Francois Fenelon
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Francois Fenelon
Age: 63 †
Born: 1651
Born: August 6
Died: 1715
Died: January 7
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That love of self, which the world advocates, is a thousand times more dangerous than any poison.
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The realization of God's presence is the one sovereign remedy against temptation.
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You really don't even own the present moment, for even this belongs to God.
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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.
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Our piety must be weak and imperfect if it do not conquer our fear of death.
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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.
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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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