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Good taste rejects excessive nicety.

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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François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon
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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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We must avoid fastidiousness neatness, when it is moderate, is a virtue but when it is carried to an extreme, it narrows the mind.
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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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We are not to choose the manner in which our blessings shall be bestowed.
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Our piety must be weak and imperfect if it do not conquer our fear of death.
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The smallest things become great when God requires them of us they are small only in themselves they are always great when they are done for God.
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Simplicity is that grace which frees the soul from all unnecessary reflections upon itself.
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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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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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I am not in the least surprised that your impression of death becomes more lively, in proportion as age and infirmity bring it nearer. God makes use of this rough trial to undeceive us in respect to our courage, to make us feel our weakness, and to keep us in all humility in His hands.
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Above all, live in the present moment and God will give you all the grace you need.
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You really don't even own the present moment, for even this belongs to God.
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All wars are civil ones for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.
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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.
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You can often help others more by correcting your own faults than theirs. Remember, and you should, because of your own experience, that allowing God to correct your faults is not easy. Be patient with people, wait for God to work with them as He wills.
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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.
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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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O Lord! take my heart, for I cannot give it and when Thou hast it, O! keep it, for I cannot keep it for Thee and save me in spite of myself, for Jesus Christ's sake.
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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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Nothing marks so much the solid advancement of a soul, as the view of one's wretchedness without anxiety and without discouragement.
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