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Us Quotes by Francois Fenelon
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- It is often our own imperfection which makes us reprove the imperfection of others; a sharp-sighted self-love of others
- Let gratitude for the past inspire us with trust for the future.
- God felt, God tasted and enjoyed is indeed God, but God with those gifts which flatter the soul, God in darkness, in privation, in forsakenness,…
- If we had strength and faith enough to trust ourselves entirely to God; and follow Him simply wherever He should lead us, we should have…
- Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a simple movement of heart toward God will renew our powers. Whatever he may demand of us,…
- So long as we are full of self we are shocked at the faults of others. Let us think often of our own sin, and…
- Never let us be discouraged with ourselves. It is not when we are conscious of our faults that we are the most wicked; on the…
- It is not the multitude of hard duties, it is not the constraint and contention that advance us in our Christian course. On the contrary,…
- To pray is to desire; but it is to desire what God would have us desire.
- Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.
- When we are truly in this interior simplicity our whole appearance is franker, more natural. This true simplicity. . . makes us conscious of a…
- True prayer is only another name for the love of God. Its excellence does not consist in the multitude of our words; for our Father…
- The smallest things become great when God requires them of us; they are small only in themselves; they are always great when they are done…
- There is no true and constant gentleness without humility. While we are so fond of ourselves, we are easily offended with others. Let us be…
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