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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.
Francois Fenelon
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Francois Fenelon
Age: 63 †
Born: 1651
Born: August 6
Died: 1715
Died: January 7
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Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we shall become indulgent toward those of others.
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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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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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Mankind, by the perverse depravity of their nature, esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it is possessed, and torment themselves with fruitless wishes for that which is beyond their reach.
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To pray is to desire but it is to desire what God would have us desire.
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Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.
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Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.
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Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a simple movement of heart toward God will renew our powers. Whatever he may demand of us, he will give us at the moment the strength and courage that we need.
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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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If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.
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Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
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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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That love of self, which the world advocates, is a thousand times more dangerous than any poison.
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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.
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Resign every forbidden joy restrain every wish that is not referred to God's will banish all eager desires, all anxiety desire only the will of God seek him alone and supremely, and you will find peace.
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The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.
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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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Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer.
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We are not to choose the manner in which our blessings shall be bestowed.
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When kings interfere in matters of religion, they enslave instead of protecting it.
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