Francois Fenelon Quotes
Top 85 wise famous quotes and sayings by Francois Fenelon
Francois Fenelon Famous Quotes & Sayings
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A general rule for the good use of time is to accustom oneself to live in a continual dependence on the Spirit of God.
Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others as by self-examination thoroughly to know our own.
To just read the Bible, attend church, and avoid "big" sins-is this passionate, wholehearted love for God?
No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades; it only makes hypocrites.
Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.
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.
If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.
Let us endeavor to commence every enterprise with a pure view to the glory of God, continue it without distraction, and finish it without impatience.
Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.
Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain.
Before putting yourself in peril, it is necessary to forsee and fear it; but when one is there, nothing remains but to despise it.
The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.
To be faithful in prayer it is indispensable that we arrange all the activities of the day with a regularity that nothing can disturb
Nothing marks so much the solid advancement of a soul, as the view of one's wretchedness without anxiety and without discouragement.
It is often our own imperfection which makes us reprove the imperfection of others; a sharp-sighted self-love of others
If the crowns of all the kingdoms of the empire were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading I would spurn them all.
Time is given us that we may take care for eternity; and eternity will not be too long to regret the loss of our time if we have misspent it.
True piety hath in it nothing weak, nothing sad, nothing constrained. It enlarges the heart; it is simple, free, and attractive.
How desirable is this simplicity! Who will give it to me? I will quit all else; it is the pearl of great price.
We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs ~ Francois Fenelon
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.
Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies.
The blood of a nation ought never to be shed except for its own preservation in the utmost extremity.
We must avoid fastidiousness; neatness, when it is moderate, is a virtue; but when it is carried to an extreme, it narrows the mind.
All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.
Be content with doing calmly the little which depends upon yourself, and let all else be to you as if it were not.
Faith is letting down our nets into the transparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall draw.
Can we be unsafe where God has placed us, and where He watches over us as a parent a child that he loves?