"So long as we are full of self……" — Francois Fenelon
"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 we shall be lenient to the sins of others."
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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 is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.
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When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing…
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I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults.…
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If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always…
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There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that…
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There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man…
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What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings…
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