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The youth who, like a woman, loves to adorn his person, has renounced all claim to wisdom and to glory glory is due to those only who dare to associate with pain, and have trampled pleasure under their feet.
Francois Fenelon
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Francois Fenelon
Age: 63 †
Born: 1651
Born: August 6
Died: 1715
Died: January 7
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You really don't even own the present moment, for even this belongs to God.
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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.
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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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Let us endeavor to commence every enterprise with a pure view to the glory of God, continue it without distraction, and finish it without impatience.
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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.
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When kings interfere in matters of religion, they enslave instead of protecting it.
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We are not to choose the manner in which our blessings shall be bestowed.
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I no longer desire anything but to be Thine.
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No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades it only makes hypocrites.
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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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It is this unquiet self-love that renders us so sensitive. The sick man, who sleeps ill, thinks the night long. We exaggerate, from cowardice, all the evils which we encounter they are great, but our sensibility increases them. The true way to bear them is to yield ourselves up with confidence 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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Pity enlarges the heart.
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Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.
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The realization of God's presence is the one sovereign remedy against temptation.
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Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation - speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.
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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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Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer.
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All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
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