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It is better to die than to tell a lie
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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Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.
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Blessed are the poor in spirit. Blessed are they who are stripped of every thing, even of their own wills, that they may no longer belong to themselves.
Francois Fenelon
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.
Francois Fenelon
Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain.
Francois Fenelon
Simplicity is that grace which frees the soul from all unnecessary reflections upon itself.
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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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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.
Francois Fenelon
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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Oh! how seldom the soul is silent, in order that God may speak.
Francois Fenelon
Our piety must be weak and imperfect if it do not conquer our fear of death.
Francois Fenelon
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
Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.
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When you come to be sensibly touched, the scales will fall from your eyes and by the penetrating eyes of love you will discern that which your other eyes will never see.
Francois Fenelon
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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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.
Francois Fenelon
Nothing marks so much the solid advancement of a soul, as the view of one's wretchedness without anxiety and without discouragement.
Francois Fenelon
True piety hath in it nothing weak, nothing sad, nothing constrained. It enlarges the heart it is simple, free, and attractive.
Francois Fenelon
Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer.
Francois Fenelon
God's treasury where He keeps His children's gifts will be like many a mother's store of relics of her children, full of things of no value to others, but precious in His eyes for the love's sake that was in them.
Francois Fenelon
You really don't even own the present moment, for even this belongs to God.
Francois Fenelon
