God felt, God tasted and enjoyed is indeed God, but God with those gifts which flatter the soul, God in darkness, in… — 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
Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
As the reflections of our pride upon our defects are bitter, disheartening, and vexatious, so the return of the soul towards God… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Alas! how many souls there are full of self, and yet desirous of doing good and serving God, but in such a… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Simplicity is the straightforwardness of a soul which refuses itself any reaction with regard to itself or its deeds. This virtue differs… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Carefully purify your conscience from daily faults; suffer no sin to dwell in your heart; small as it may seem, it obscures… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Do we accustom ourselves to see all things in the light of faith? Do we correct all our judgments by it? Alas!… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
How different the peace of God from that of the world! It calms the passions, preserves the purity of the conscience, is… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
O God, the creature knows not to what end Thou hast made Him; teach him, and write in the depths of his… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Nothing marks so much the solid advancement of a soul, as the view of one's wretchedness without anxiety and without discouragement. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
The presence of God calms the soul, and gives it quiet and repose. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
If we love Him infinitely more than we do ourselves, we make an unconditional sacr Here it is that the Spirit teaches… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Simplicity is that grace which frees the soul from all unnecessary reflections upon itself. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Simplicity brings back the joys of Paradise. Not that we have pure pleasure without a moment's suffering, but when we are surrendered… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Peace does not dwell in outward things but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain,… — 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
