“Silence promotes the presence of God, prevents many harsh and proud words, and suppresses many dangers in the way of ridiculing or… — François Fénelon Copy Share Image
It is when God appears to have abandoned us that we must abandon ourselves most wholly to God. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
How can you expect God to speak in that gentle and inward voice which melts the soul, when you are making so… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
God's treasury where He keeps His children's gifts will be like many a mother's store of relics of her children, full of… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
“There is practically nothing that men do not prefer to God. A tiresome detail of business, an occupation utterly pernicious to health,… — François Fénelon Copy Share Image
God never makes us sensible of our weakness except to give us of His strength. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
To pray is to desire; but it is to desire what God would have us desire. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
God never ceases to speak to us, but the noise of the world without and the tumult of our passions within bewilder… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
How does our will become sanctified? By conforming itself unreservedly to that of God. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
God is so good that He only awaits our desire to overwhelm us with the gift of himself. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
God would behold in you a simplicity which will contain so much the more of His wisdom as it contains less of… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
When you find that weariness depresses or amusement distracts you, you will calmly turn with an untroubled spirit to your Heavenly Father,… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
“What then are we afraid of? Can we have too much of God? Is it a misfortune to be freed from the… — François Fénelon Copy Share Image
Can we be unsafe where God has placed us, and where He watches over us as a parent a child that he… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
There is no real elevation of mind in a contempt of little things; it is, on the contrary, from too narrow views that we… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
“If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
That love of self, which the world advocates, is a thousand times more dangerous than any poison. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
There were some who said that a man at the point of death was more free than all others, because death breaks every bond,… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Prayer is so necessary, and the source of so many blessings, that he who has discovered the treasure cannot be prevented from having recourse… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
There is no true and constant gentleness without humility. While we are so fond of ourselves, we are easily offended with others. Let us… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Let me follow in Thy footsteps, O Jesus ! I would imitate Thee, but cannot without the aid of Thy grace! O humble and… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Our piety must be weak and imperfect if it do not conquer our fear of death. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
