Francois Fenelon

The more you say, the less people remember.

— Francois Fenelon

The most essential point is lowliness.

— Francois Fenelon

Time spent in prayer is never wasted.

— Francois Fenelon

I love my country better than my family; but I love humanity better than my country.

— Francois Fenelon

Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed by prudence.

— Francois Fenelon

God is so good that He only awaits our desire to overwhelm us with the gift of himself.

— Francois Fenelon

Crosses are of no use to us but inasmuch as we yield ourselves up to them and forget ourselves.

— Francois Fenelon

Make this simple rule the guide of your life: to have no will but God's.

— Francois Fenelon

Frequently a big advantage can be gained by knowing how to give in at the right moment.

— Francois Fenelon

Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.

— Francois Fenelon

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

— Francois Fenelon

That love of self, which the world advocates, is a thousand times more dangerous than any poison.

— Francois Fenelon

Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies

— Francois Fenelon

There were some who said that a man at the point of death was more free than all others, because death breaks…

— Francois Fenelon

When you come to be sensibly touched, the scales will fall from your eyes; and by the penetrating eyes of love you…

— Francois Fenelon

If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.

— 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

To be faithful in prayer it is indispensable that we arrange all the activities of the day with a regularity that nothing…

— Francois Fenelon

We must avoid fastidiousness; neatness, when it is moderate, is a virtue; but when it is carried to an extreme, it narrows…

— Francois Fenelon

There are some people who think that they should be always mourning, that they should put a continual constraint upon themselves, and…

— Francois Fenelon

A cross borne in simplicity, without the interference of self-love to augment it, is only half a cross. Suffering in this simplicity…

— Francois Fenelon

The great point is to renounce your own wisdom by simplicity of walk, and to be ready to give up the favor,…

— Francois Fenelon

Simplicity is the straightforwardness of a soul which refuses itself any reaction with regard to itself or its deeds. This virtue differs…

— Francois Fenelon

How dangerous it is for our salvation, how unworthy of God and of ourselves, how pernicious even for the peace of our…

— Francois Fenelon

“There is practically nothing that men do not prefer to God. A tiresome detail of business, an occupation utterly pernicious to health,…

— François Fénelon

If we love Him infinitely more than we do ourselves, we make an unconditional sacr Here it is that the Spirit teaches…

— Francois Fenelon

God, who is liberal in all his other gifts, shows us, by the wise economy of His providence, how circumspect we ought…

— Francois Fenelon

It is not the multitude of hard duties, it is not the constraint and contention that advance us in our Christian course.…

— Francois Fenelon

“We desire that God would give us the death-stroke; but we long to die without pain; we would die to our own…

— François Fénelon

Wine is the source of the greatest evils among communities. It causes diseases, quarrels, seditions, idleness, aversion to labor, and family disorders.…

— Francois Fenelon

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

— Francois Fenelon

The wind of God is always blowing... but you must hoist your sail.

— Francois Fenelon

O Lord, I do most cheerfully commit all unto Thee.

— Francois Fenelon

We are not to choose the manner in which our blessings shall be bestowed.

— Francois Fenelon

Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul.

— Francois Fenelon

Worry is the cross which we make for ourselves by over anxiety.

— Francois Fenelon

The best use one can make of his mind is to distrust it.

— Francois Fenelon

Nothing is so costly as the pursuit of a cure for imaginary ills.

— Francois Fenelon

There is no more dangerous illusion than the fancies by which people try to avoid illusion.

— Francois Fenelon

Listen less to your own thoughts and more to God's thoughts.

— Francois Fenelon