Jane Frances de Chantal Quotes

• In prayer, more is accomplished by listening than by talking.

  Jane Frances de Chantal

  Prayer, Talking, Listening

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• Hold your eyes on God and leave the doing to him. That is all the doing you have to worry about.

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  God, Christian, Eye

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• Follow your own way of speaking to our Lord sincerely, lovingly, confidently, and simply, as your heart dictates.

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  Heart, Way, Lord

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• Must you continue to be your own cross? No matter which way God leads you, you change everything into bitterness by constantly brooding over everything. For the love of God, replace all this self-scrutiny with a pure and simple glance at God's goodness.

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  Pain, Simple, Self

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• In prayer one must hold fast and never let go, because the one who gives up loses all. If it seems that no one is listening to you, then cry out even louder. If you are driven out of one door, go back in by the other.

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  Letting Go, Prayer, Giving Up

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• With God there is no need for long speeches.

  Jane Frances de Chantal

  Long, Needs, Speech

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• There is no danger if our prayer is without words or reflection because the good success of prayer depends neither on words nor on study. It depends upon the simple raising of our minds to God, and the more simple and stripped of feeling it is, the surer it is.

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  Prayer, Reflection, Simple

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• Cordial love of the neighbor does not consist in feelings. This love flows not from a heart of flesh but from the heart of our will.

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  Heart, Feelings, Doe

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• Suffering borne in the will quietly and patiently is a continual, very powerful prayer before God.

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  Prayer, Powerful, Suffering

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• we must be as satisfied to be powerless, idle and still before God, and dried up and barren when He permits it, as to be full of life, enjoying His presence with ease and devotion. The whole matter of our union with God consists in being content either way.

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  God, Enjoy Life, Ease

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• The great method of prayer is to have none. If in going to prayer one can form in oneself a pure capacity for receiving the spirit of God, that will suffice for all method.

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  Faith, Prayer, Inspiration

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• When shall it be that we shall taste the sweetness of the Divine Will in all that happens to us, considering in everything only His good pleasure, by whom it is certain that adversity is sent with as much love as prosperity, and as much for our good? When shall we cast ourselves undeservedly into the arms of our most loving Father in Heaven, leaving to Him the care of ourselves and of our affairs, and reserving only the desire of pleasing Him, and of serving Him well in all that we can?

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  Father, Adversity, Heaven

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• Hell is full of the talented, but Heaven of the energetic.

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  Heaven, Hell, Energetic

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• An evil discovered is half healed.

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  Evil, Half, Awareness

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• ... in this valley of tears we must expect much sorrow and little consolation.

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  Sorrow, Tears, Valleys

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• Is there world enough for me?

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  World, Enough

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