Francois Fenelon Quotes

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• God never ceases to speak to us, but the noise of the world without and the tumult of our passions within bewilder us and prevent…
• Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.
• I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray; pray thyself in me.
• Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer.
• Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.
• In the light of eternity we shall see that what we desired would have been fatal to us, and that what we would have avoided…
• Little opportunities should be improved.
• Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.
• Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation - speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed…
• The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades…
• We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.
• All wars are civil ones; for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.
• It is often our own imperfection which makes us reprove the imperfection of others; a sharp-sighted self-love of others
• Worry is the cross which we make for ourselves by over anxiety.
• 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.
• As long as anything in this world means anything to you, your freedom is only a word. You are like a bird that is held…
• Let gratitude for the past inspire us with trust for the future.
• The more you say, the less people remember.
• Temptations are a file which rub off much of the rust of our self-confidence.
• The greatest of all crosses is self. If we die in part every day, we shall have but little to do on the last. These…

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