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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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François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon
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abbé de Fénélon
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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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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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God is our true Friend, who always gives us the counsel and comfort we need. Our danger lies in resisting Him so it is essential that we acquire the habit of hearkening to His voice, or keeping silence within, and listening so as to lose nothing of what He says to us.
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Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.
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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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Do we accustom ourselves to see all things in the light of faith? Do we correct all our judgments by it? Alas! The greater part of Christians think and act like mere heathens if we judge (as we justly may) of their faith by their practice, we must conclude they have no faith at all.
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There is no real elevation of mind in a contempt of little things it is, on the contrary, from too narrow views that we consider those things of little importance which have in fact such extensive consequences.
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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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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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Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer.
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The history of the world suggests that without love of God there is little likelihood of a love for man that does not become corrupt.
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