Francois Fenelon Quotes

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• Let gratitude for the past inspire us with trust for the future.

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  Gratitude, Godly, Past

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• No more restless uncertainties, no more anxious desires, no more impatience at the place we are in; for it is God who has placed us there, and who holds us in his arms. Can we be unsafe where he has placed us?

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  Desire, Arms, Restless

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• How can you expect God to speak in that gentle and inward voice which melts the soul, when you are making so much noise with your rapid reflections? Be silent and God will speak again.

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  God, Prayer, Reflection

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• You can often help others more by correcting your own faults than theirs. Remember, and you should, because of your own experience, that allowing God to correct your faults is not easy. Be patient with people, wait for God to work with them as He wills.

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  Helping Others, People, Waiting

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• The wind of God is always blowing... but you must hoist your sail.

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  Wind, Sail

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• The more you say, the less people remember.

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  Inspirational, People, Self Improvement

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• It is when God appears to have abandoned us that we must abandon ourselves most wholly to God.

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  Abandoned, Abandon

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• People who have no secrets from each other never want for a subject of conversation. They do not weigh their words, for there is nothing to be held back, neither do they seek for something to say. They talk out of the abundance of their heart, without consideration they say just what they think. Blessed are they who attain to such familiar, unreserved intercourse with God.

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  Blessed, Heart, Thinking

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• Make this simple rule the guide of your life: to have no will but God's.

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  Simple, Guides

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• God never ceases to speak to us, but the noise of the world without and the tumult of our passions within bewilder us and prevent us from listening to him

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  Prayer, Passion, Listening

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• There is nothing that is more dangerous to your own salvation, more unworthy of God and more harmful to your own happiness, than that you should be content to remain as you are.

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  Salvation, Should, Dangerous

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• A general rule for the good use of time is to accustom oneself to live in a continual dependence on the Spirit of God.

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  Use, Spirit, Holy

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• Commit yourself then to God! He will be your guide. He Himself will travel with you, as we are told He did with the Israelites, to bring them step by step across the desert to the promised land. Ah! what will be your blessedness, if you will but surrender yourself into the hands of God, permitting Him to do whatever He will, not according to your desires, but according to His own good pleasure?

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  Trust, Hands, Land

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.39, Lulu.com

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• The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.

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  People, Perfect, Quiet

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• Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain.

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  Funny, Humorous, People

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• God bears with imperfect beings even when they resist His goodness. We ought to imitate this merciful patience and endurance. It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.

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  Knowledge, Perfect, People

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• There is no true and constant gentleness without humility. While we are so fond of ourselves, we are easily offended with others. Let us be persuaded that nothing is due to us, and then nothing will disturb us. Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we will become indulgent towards those of others.

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  Humility, Thinking, Easily Offended

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• Pure love is in the will alone; it is no sentimental love, for the imagination has no part in it; it loves, if we may so express it, without feeling, as faith believes without seeing.

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  Believe, Love Is, Imagination

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.32, Lulu.com

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• 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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  Thinking, Self, Long

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• It is not the multitude of hard duties, it is not the constraint and contention that advance us in our Christian course. On the contrary, it is the yielding of our wills without restriction and without choice to tread cheerfully every day in the path in which Providence leads us. It is to seek nothing, to be discouraged by nothing, to see our duty in the present moment, and to trust all else without reserve to the will and power of God.

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  Christian, Choices, Path

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• Time spent in prayer is never wasted.

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  Time, Prayer, Wasted Time

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• Carefully purify your conscience from daily faults; suffer no sin to dwell in your heart; small as it may seem, it obscures the light of grace, weighs down the soul, and hinders that constant communion with Jesus Christ which it should be your pleasure to cultivate.

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  Jesus, Heart, Light

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.72, Lulu.com

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• True prayer is only another name for the love of God. Its excellence does not consist in the multitude of our words; for our Father knoweth what things we have need of before we ask Him. The true prayer is that of the heart, and the heart prays only for what it desires. To pray, then is to desire -- but to desire what God would have us desire. He who asks what he does not from the bottom of his heart desire, is mistaken in thinking that he prays.

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  Prayer, Father, Heart

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• How different the peace of God from that of the world! It calms the passions, preserves the purity of the conscience, is inseparable from righteousness, unites us to God and strengthens us against temptations. The peace of the soul consists in an absolute resignation to the will of God.

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  Peace, Passion, Temptation

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.115, Lulu.com

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• God is our true Friend, who always gives us the counsel and comfort we need. Our danger lies in resisting Him; so it is essential that we acquire the habit of hearkening to His voice, or keeping silence within, and listening so as to lose nothing of what He says to us.

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  True Friend, Lying, Voice

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