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Make this simple rule the guide of your life: to have no will but God's.
Francois Fenelon
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Francois Fenelon
Age: 63 †
Born: 1651
Born: August 6
Died: 1715
Died: January 7
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Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
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Oh! how seldom the soul is silent, in order that God may speak.
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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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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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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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I no longer desire anything but to be Thine.
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The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.
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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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No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades it only makes hypocrites.
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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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Speak, move, act in peace.
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God is our true Friend, who always gives us the counsel and comfort we need. Our danger lies in resisting Him so it is essential that we acquire the habit of hearkening to His voice, or keeping silence within, and listening so as to lose nothing of what He says to us.
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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?
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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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There is no real elevation of mind in a contempt of little things it is, on the contrary, from too narrow views that we consider those things of little importance which have in fact such extensive consequences.
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Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul.
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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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Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.
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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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