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The most essential point is lowliness.
— Francois Fenelon
A general rule for the good use of time is to accustom oneself to live in a continual dependence on the Spirit of God.
— Francois Fenelon
In short, what ought to help most to open their eyes serves only to close them faster;
— Francois Fenelon
Frequently a big advantage can be gained by knowing how to give in at the right moment.
— Francois Fenelon
Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others as by self-examination thoroughly to know our own.
— Francois Fenelon
To just read the Bible, attend church, and avoid "big" sins-is this passionate, wholehearted love for God?
— Francois Fenelon
No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades; it only makes hypocrites.
— Francois Fenelon
Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
— Francois Fenelon
Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
— Francois Fenelon
Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.
— Francois Fenelon
Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed by prudence.
— Francois Fenelon
I love my country better than my family; but I love humanity better than my country.
— Francois Fenelon
A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.
— Francois Fenelon
How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.
— 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
Pity enlarges the heart.
— Francois Fenelon
If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.
— Francois Fenelon
When kings interfere in matters of religion, they enslave instead of protecting it.
— Francois Fenelon
We are not to choose the manner in which our blessings shall be bestowed.
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The gifts of God are not to be rejected on account of the channel that brings them.
— Francois Fenelon
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.
— Francois Fenelon
Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.
— Francois Fenelon
Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.
— Francois Fenelon
I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray; pray thyself in me.
— Francois Fenelon
Time spent in prayer is never wasted.
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Crosses are of no use to us but inasmuch as we yield ourselves up to them and forget ourselves.
— Francois Fenelon
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.
— Francois Fenelon
Before putting yourself in peril, it is necessary to forsee and fear it; but when one is there, nothing remains but to despise it.
— Francois Fenelon
The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls.
— Francois Fenelon
The presence of God calms the soul, and gives it quiet and repose.
— Francois Fenelon
Oh! how seldom the soul is silent, in order that God may speak.
— Francois Fenelon
The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.
— Francois Fenelon
Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.
— Francois Fenelon
To be faithful in prayer it is indispensable that we arrange all the activities of the day with a regularity that nothing can disturb
— Francois Fenelon
We may as well tolerate all religions, since God Himself tolerates all.
— Francois Fenelon
Nothing marks so much the solid advancement of a soul, as the view of one's wretchedness without anxiety and without discouragement.
— Francois Fenelon
It is often our own imperfection which makes us reprove the imperfection of others; a sharp-sighted self-love of others
— Francois Fenelon
Good taste rejects excessive nicety.
— Francois Fenelon
Violent excitement exhausts the mind and leaves it withered and sterile.
— Francois Fenelon
Little opportunities should be improved.
— Francois Fenelon
You really don't even own the present moment, for even this belongs to God.
— Francois Fenelon
Let gratitude for the past inspire us with trust for the future.
— Francois Fenelon
Those who are wholly God's are always happy.
— Francois Fenelon
It is better to die than to tell a lie
— Francois Fenelon
The best use one can make of his mind is to distrust it.
— Francois Fenelon
That love of self, which the world advocates, is a thousand times more dangerous than any poison.
— Francois Fenelon
There is never any peace for those who resist God.
— Francois Fenelon
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.
— Francois Fenelon
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.
— Francois Fenelon
True piety hath in it nothing weak, nothing sad, nothing constrained. It enlarges the heart; it is simple, free, and attractive.
— Francois Fenelon
Simplicity is that grace which frees the soul from all unnecessary reflections upon itself.
— Francois Fenelon
How desirable is this simplicity! Who will give it to me? I will quit all else; it is the pearl of great price.
— Francois Fenelon
I no longer desire anything but to be Thine.
— Francois Fenelon
We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs ~ Francois Fenelon
— 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.
— Francois Fenelon
God is so good that He only awaits our desire to overwhelm us with the gift of himself.
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Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies.
— Francois Fenelon
Worry is the cross which we make for ourselves by over anxiety.
— Francois Fenelon
Nothing is so costly as the pursuit of a cure for imaginary ills.
— Francois Fenelon
Listen less to your own thoughts and more to God's thoughts.
— Francois Fenelon
The blood of a nation ought never to be shed except for its own preservation in the utmost extremity.
— Francois Fenelon
There is no more dangerous illusion than the fancies by which people try to avoid illusion.
— Francois Fenelon
Make this simple rule the guide of your life: to have no will but God's.
— Francois Fenelon
We must avoid fastidiousness; neatness, when it is moderate, is a virtue; but when it is carried to an extreme, it narrows the mind.
— Francois Fenelon
It is when God appears to have abandoned us that we must abandon ourselves most wholly to God.
— Francois Fenelon
The realization of God's presence is the one sovereign remedy against temptation.
— Francois Fenelon
All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.
— Francois Fenelon
Be content with doing calmly the little which depends upon yourself, and let all else be to you as if it were not.
— Francois Fenelon
O Lord, I do most cheerfully commit all unto Thee.
— Francois Fenelon
Faith is letting down our nets into the transparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall draw.
— Francois Fenelon
How does our will become sanctified? By conforming itself unreservedly to that of God.
— Francois Fenelon
Can we be unsafe where God has placed us, and where He watches over us as a parent a child that he loves?
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The wind of God is always blowing ... but you must hoist your sail.
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All wars are civil ones; for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.
— Francois Fenelon
To pray is to desire; but it is to desire what God would have us desire.
— Francois Fenelon
God would behold in you a simplicity which will contain so much the more of His wisdom as it contains less of your own.
— Francois Fenelon
The more you say, the less people remember.
— Francois Fenelon
Above all, live in the present moment and God will give you all the grace you need.
— Francois Fenelon
The greater our dread of crosses, the more necessary they are for us.
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Our piety must be weak and imperfect if it do not conquer our fear of death.
— Francois Fenelon