"The history of the world suggests that without……" — Francois Fenelon
"The history of the world suggests that without love of God there is little likelihood of a love for man that does not become corrupt."
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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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I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws…
— Horace Mann
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He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.
— Samuel Johnson
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One of the things Jesus did was to step aside from the organized religion of his time because it had…
— Corita Kent
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The profession to which we belong, once venerated...-has become corrupt and degenerate to the forfeiture of its social position...
— Nathaniel Chapman
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Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer!" This has been the cry of all cities to man...
— Alfred de Musset
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...is the spirit of the people an infallible, a permanent reliance? ...the spirit of the times may alter, will alter.…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless... From the conclusion…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters."…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Each candidate behaved well in the hope of being judged worthy of election. However, this system was disastrous when the…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and…
— Samuel Johnson
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Corruption spreads faster than cancer among the people in power and position; it strengthens itself by emergence of unholy alliances…
— T Joseph Benziger
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