Francois Fenelon Quotes About Grace

Quotes about: Grace

• Above all, live in the present moment and God will give you all the grace you need.

  Francois Fenelon

  Giving, Grace, Live In The Moment

• We are not to choose the manner in which our blessings shall be bestowed.

  Francois Fenelon

  Blessing, Grace

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.140, Lulu.com

• It is only by fidelity in little things that the grace of true love to God can be sustained, and distinguished from a passing fervor of spirit. . . . No one can well believe that our piety is sincere, when our behavior is lax and irregular in its little details. What probability is there that we should not hesitate to make the greatest sacrifices, when we shrink from the smallest?

  Francois Fenelon

  Love, Believe, Sacrifice

• God felt, God tasted and enjoyed is indeed God, but God with those gifts which flatter the soul, God in darkness, in privation, in forsakenness, in sensibility, is so much God, that he is so to speak God bare and alone. Shall we fear this death, which is to produce in us the true divine life of grace?

  Francois Fenelon

  Christian, Grace, Soul

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

  Francois Fenelon

  Reflection, Simplicity, Grace

• Let me follow in Thy footsteps, O Jesus ! I would imitate Thee, but cannot without the aid of Thy grace! O humble and lowly Saviour, grant me the knowledge of the true Christian, and that I may willingly despise myself; let me learn the lesson so incomprehensible to the mind of man, that I must die to myself by an abandonment that shall produce true humility.

  Francois Fenelon

  Christian, Jesus, Humble

• As a general rule, those truths which we highly relish, and which shed a degree of practical light upon the things which we are required to give up for God, are leadings of Divine grace, which we should follow without hesitation.

  Francois Fenelon

  Giving Up, Light, Grace

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.264, 1895.

• 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.

  Francois Fenelon

  Jesus, Heart, Light

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

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