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The gifts of God are not to be rejected on account of the channel that brings them.

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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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 really don't even own the present moment, for even this belongs to God.
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We are never less alone than when we are in the society of a single, faithful friend never less deserted than when we are carried in tne arms of the All-Powerful.
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There is but one way in which God should be loved, and that is to take no step except with Him and for Him, and to follow with a generous self-abandonment every thing which He requires.
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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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That love of self, which the world advocates, is a thousand times more dangerous than any poison.
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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 greater our dread of crosses, the more necessary they are for us.
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Listen less to your own thoughts and more to God's thoughts.
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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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Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.
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Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
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The most essential point is lowliness.
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Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul.
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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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When kings interfere in matters of religion, they enslave instead of protecting it.
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God has not chosen to save us without crosses as He has not seen fit to create men at once in the full vigor of manhood, but has suffered them to grow up by degrees amid all the perils and weaknesses of youth.
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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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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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