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Francois Fenelon has 91 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.
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I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray; pray thyself in me.
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Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer.
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Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.
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In the light of eternity we shall see that what we desired would have been fatal to us, and that what we…
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Little opportunities should be improved.
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Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.
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Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation - speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in…
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The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the…
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We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.
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All wars are civil ones; for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.
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Expect nothing and accept everything and you will never be disappointed.
— Laurence Overmire
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My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am…
— Anthony Hopkins
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It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition,…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well…
— Francois Fenelon
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Hope for everything, expect nothing.
— Darren Criss
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Climate helps to shape the character of peoples, certainly no people more than the English. The uncertainty of their climate has helped…
— H E Bates
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Peace is our inner wealth. This inner wealth we can bring to the fore only when we expect nothing from the outer…
— Sri Chinmoy
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For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in…
— Edgar Cayce
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If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.
— Dogen
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Seek to give much -- expect nothing.
— Jonathan Goforth
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To love is simply to allow another to be, live, grow, expand, become. An appreciation that demands and expects nothing in return.
— Kate Millett
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Expect nothing. Today: that is your life.
— Kurt Tucholsky
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