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There is nothing that is more dangerous to your own salvation, more unworthy of God and more harmful to your own happiness, than that you should be content to remain as you are.

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 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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Time spent in prayer is never wasted.
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To pray is to desire but it is to desire what God would have us desire.
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Faith is letting down our nets into the transparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall draw.
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I no longer desire anything but to be Thine.
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There is never any peace for those who resist God.
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Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer.
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The history of the world suggests that without love of God there is little likelihood of a love for man that does not become corrupt.
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Good taste rejects excessive nicety.
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As to our friend , I pray God to bestow upon him a simplicity that shall give him peace . Happy are they indeed who can bear their sufferings in the enjoyment of this simple peace and perfect acquiesence in the will of God.
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The greater our dread of crosses, the more necessary they are for us.
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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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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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Despondency is not a state of humility on the contrary, it is the vexation and despair of a cowardly pride--nothing is worse whether we stumble or whether we fall, we must only think of rising again and going on in our course.
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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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Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies
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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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It is often our own imperfection which makes us reprove the imperfection of others a sharp-sighted self-love of others
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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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