"If we were faultless we should not be……" — Francois Fenelon
"If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate."
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Francois Fenelon
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87 Quotes by Francois Fenelon
Francois Fenelon has 87 quotes on this site.
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God never ceases to speak to us, but the noise of the world without and the tumult of our passions…
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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…
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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…
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The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and…
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We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct…
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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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It's inevitable that if you do okay on something like that you don't just annoy people, that it will make…
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Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
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My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my…
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I am annoyed by individuals who are embarrassed by pauses in a conversation. To me, every conversational pause refreshes.
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Agassiz, when I saw him last, had read but a part of Origin of Species. He says it is POOR-VERY…
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Being brought up in a Christian home and still identifying as Christian, I get pretty annoyed with the Christian lobbies…
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