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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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Time spent in prayer is never wasted.
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Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul.
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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.
Francois Fenelon
Resign every forbidden joy restrain every wish that is not referred to God's will banish all eager desires, all anxiety desire only the will of God seek him alone and supremely, and you will find peace.
Francois Fenelon
If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.
Francois Fenelon
Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.
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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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Make this simple rule the guide of your life: to have no will but God's.
Francois Fenelon
Good taste rejects excessive nicety.
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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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O Lord, I do most cheerfully commit all unto Thee.
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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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Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we shall become indulgent toward those of others.
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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.
Francois Fenelon
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.
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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God bears with imperfect beings even when they resist His goodness. We ought to imitate this merciful patience and endurance. It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.
Francois Fenelon
The realization of God's presence is the one sovereign remedy against temptation.
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The great point is to renounce your own wisdom by simplicity of walk, and to be ready to give up the favor, esteem, and approbation of every one, whenever the path in which God leads you passes that way.
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To pray is to desire but it is to desire what God would have us desire.
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