"Even if no command to pray had existed,……" — Francois Fenelon

"Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it."

— Francois Fenelon

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87 Quotes by Francois Fenelon

Francois Fenelon has 87 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

God never ceases to speak to us, but the noise of the world without and the tumult of our passions…
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…
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…
The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and…
We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct…
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

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More Command Quotes

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Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that… — Neil Armstrong
You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense. — Margaret Atwood
Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt. — Saint Augustine
The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing. — Roger Babson
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. — Francis Bacon
The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite… — Honore de Balzac
Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied… — Tyra Banks
Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price. — Jean Baudrillard
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. — Robert Benchley
Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes. — Buffalo Bill
When you think about rock at its origin, and you think of the Beatles and millions of kids screaming as… — Jack Black
I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up. — Napoleon Bonaparte

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