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Frequently a big advantage can be gained by knowing how to give in at the right moment.
Francois Fenelon
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Francois Fenelon
Age: 63 †
Born: 1651
Born: August 6
Died: 1715
Died: January 7
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More quotes by Francois Fenelon
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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Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.
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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 wind of God is always blowing... but you must hoist your sail.
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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.
Francois Fenelon
To pray is to desire but it is to desire what God would have us desire.
Francois Fenelon
God would behold in you a simplicity which will contain so much the more of His wisdom as it contains less of your own.
Francois Fenelon
No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades it only makes hypocrites.
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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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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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So long as we are full of self we are shocked at the faults of others. Let us think often of our own sin, and we shall be lenient to the sins of others.
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We must truly serve those whom we appear to command we must bear with their imperfections, correct them with gentleness and patience, and lead them in the way to heaven.
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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
Speak, move, act in peace.
Francois Fenelon
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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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
Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.
Francois Fenelon
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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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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