"We can often do more for other men……" — Francois Fenelon

"We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs."

— 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…
All wars are civil ones; for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.
It is often our own imperfection which makes us reprove the imperfection of others; a sharp-sighted self-love of others

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