"Speak, move, act in peace..." — Francois Fenelon

"Speak, move, act in peace..."

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

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More Act Quotes

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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