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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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• Time spent in prayer is never wasted.

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  Time, Prayer, Wasted Time

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

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  Giving, Grace, Live In The Moment

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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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• 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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• God is so good that He only awaits our desire to overwhelm us with the gift of himself.

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  Desire

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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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• Can we be unsafe where God has placed us, and where He watches over us as a parent a child that he loves?

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  God, Children, Parent

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• Let us pray God that He would root out of our hearts every thing of our own planting, and set out there, with His own hands, the tree of life, bearing all manner of fruits.

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  Heart, Hands, Roots

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.61, Lulu.com

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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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• The Christian life is a long and continual tendency of our hearts toward that eternal goodness which we desire on earth. All our happiness consists in thirsting for it. Now this thirst is prayer. Ever desire to approach your Creator, and you will never cease to pray. Do not think it necessary to pronounce many words.

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  Christian, Prayer, Heart

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• To will everything that God wills, and to will it always, in all circumstances and without reservations: that is the kingdom of God which is entirely within.

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  Catholic, Kingdoms, Reservations

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• All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.

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  Spiritual, Expectations, Fruition

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• The most essential point is lowliness.

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  Humility, Essentials, Lowliness

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.128, Lulu.com

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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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• The smallest things become great when God requires them of us; they are small only in themselves; they are always great when they are done for God.

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  Humility, Done, Smallest

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• Worry is the cross which we make for ourselves by over anxiety.

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  Worry, Anxiety, Crosses

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• We must have faith during the period of our grief. We think that our afflictions will be greater than we can bear, but we do not know the strength of our own hearts, nor the power of God. He knows all. He knows every folding of the heart and also the extent of the sorrow that he inflicts. What we think will overwhelm us entirely only subdues and conquers our pride. Our renewed spirit rises from its subjugation with a celestial strength and consolation.

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  Grief, Heart, Pride

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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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• 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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• Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.

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  Prayer, Essentials, Christianity

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

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  Gymnastics, Men, Criticism

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