"Nothing will make us so charitable and tender……" — Francois Fenelon
"Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own."
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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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For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
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Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
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I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect…
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Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while…
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I'm not sure what fame is for if it isn't to focus on charitable work.quot;
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Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.
— Thomas Browne
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The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom…
— Albert Camus
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Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you…
— Maxim Gorky
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Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers,…
— August Strindberg
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He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.
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The willingness to share does not make one charitable; it makes one free.
— Robert Breault
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An atheist can be charitable but not religious. But the religious man must be charitable.
— Swami Vivekananda
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