Francois Fenelon Quotes

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

  Francois Fenelon

  Simple, Guides

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• We may be sure that it is the love of God only that can make us come out of self. If His powerful hand did not sustain us, we should not know how to take the first step in that direction.

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  Powerful, Self, Hands

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.44, Lulu.com

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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 more you say, the less people remember.

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  Inspirational, People, Self Improvement

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

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  Gratitude, Godly, Past

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.

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  Love, Self, Knowing Who You Are

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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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• 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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• 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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• Simplicity is that grace which frees the soul from all unnecessary reflections upon itself.

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  Reflection, Simplicity, Grace

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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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• How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.

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  Humility, Soul, Quiet

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• The greatest of all crosses is self. If we die in part every day, we shall have but little to do on the last. These little daily deaths will destroy the power of the final dying.

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  Self, Dying, Lasts

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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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• Nothing is so costly as the pursuit of a cure for imaginary ills.

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  Cures, Pursuit, Imaginary

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• Time spent in prayer is never wasted.

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  Time, Prayer, Wasted Time

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• Faith is letting down our nets into the transparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall draw.

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  Command Not, Knowing, Faith In God

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.238, 1895.

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