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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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O God, the creature knows not to what end Thou hast made Him teach him, and write in the depths of his soul that the clay must suffer itself to be shaped at the will of the potter.
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Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.
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Our piety must be weak and imperfect if it do not conquer our fear of death.
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We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.
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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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There is no true and constant gentleness without humility. While we are so fond of ourselves, we are easily offended with others. Let us be persuaded that nothing is due to us, and then nothing will disturb us. Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we will become indulgent towards those of others.
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If we were faultless, we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate. If we were to acknowledge honestly that we have not virtue enough to bear patiently with our neighbor's weaknesses, we should show our own imperfection, and this alarms our vanity.
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The greatest defect of common education is, that we are in the habit of putting pleasure all on one side, and weariness on the other all weariness in study, all pleasure in idleness.
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In the light of eternity we shall see that what we desired would have been fatal to us, and that what we would have avoided was essential to our well-being.
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Listen less to your own thoughts and more to God's thoughts.
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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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A cross borne in simplicity, without the interference of self-love to augment it, is only half a cross. Suffering in this simplicity of love, we are not only happy in spile of the cross, but because of it for love is pleased in suffering for the Well Beloved, and the cross which forms us into His image is a consoling bond of love.
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All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.
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God felt, God tasted and enjoyed is indeed God, but God with those gifts which flatter the soul, God in darkness, in privation, in forsakenness, in sensibility, is so much God, that he is so to speak God bare and alone. Shall we fear this death, which is to produce in us the true divine life of grace?
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You really don't even own the present moment, for even this belongs to God.
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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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Frequently a big advantage can be gained by knowing how to give in at the right moment.
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Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.
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The gifts of God are not to be rejected on account of the channel that brings them.
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We are not to choose the manner in which our blessings shall be bestowed.
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