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The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.
Francois Fenelon
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Francois Fenelon
Age: 63 †
Born: 1651
Born: August 6
Died: 1715
Died: January 7
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François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon
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abbé de Fénélon
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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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Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we shall become indulgent toward those of others.
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God would behold in you a simplicity which will contain so much the more of His wisdom as it contains less of your own.
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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.
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The youth who, like a woman, loves to adorn his person, has renounced all claim to wisdom and to glory glory is due to those only who dare to associate with pain, and have trampled pleasure under their feet.
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Time spent in prayer is never wasted.
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O Lord, I do most cheerfully commit all unto Thee.
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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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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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I am not in the least surprised that your impression of death becomes more lively, in proportion as age and infirmity bring it nearer. God makes use of this rough trial to undeceive us in respect to our courage, to make us feel our weakness, and to keep us in all humility in His hands.
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As long as anything in this world means anything to you, your freedom is only a word. You are like a bird that is held by a leash you can only fly so far.
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To pray is to desire but it is to desire what God would have us desire.
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All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
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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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Above all, live in the present moment and God will give you all the grace you need.
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Oh! how seldom the soul is silent, in order that God may speak.
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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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Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.
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God never ceases to speak to us, but the noise of the world without and the tumult of our passions within bewilder us and prevent us from listening to him
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