Francois Fenelon Quotes

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The more you say, the less people remember.

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  Inspirational, People, Self Improvement

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

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  Wind, Sail

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• Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.

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  Self, Examination, Faults

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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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• 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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• 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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• That love of self, which the world advocates, is a thousand times more dangerous than any poison.

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  Self, Suffering, Poison

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• Time spent in prayer is never wasted.

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  Time, Prayer, Wasted Time

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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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• All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

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  Brother, War, Hippie

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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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• 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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