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

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  Love, Self, Knowing Who You Are

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It is not the multitude of hard duties, it is not the constraint and contention that advance us in our Christian course. On the contrary, it is the yielding of our wills without restriction and without choice to tread cheerfully every day in the path in which Providence leads us. It is to seek nothing, to be discouraged by nothing, to see our duty in the present moment, and to trust all else without reserve to the will and power of God.

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  Christian, Choices, Path

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

  Francois Fenelon

  Desire

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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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• 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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• Be content with doing calmly the little which depends upon yourself, and let all else be to you as if it were not.

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  Littles, Duty, Depends

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• The realization of God's presence is the one sovereign remedy against temptation.

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  Temptation, Realization, Sovereign

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• Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.

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  Prayer, Praying, Trouble

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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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• Resign every forbidden joy; restrain every wish that is not referred to God's will; banish all eager desires, all anxiety; desire only the will of God; seek him alone and supremely, and you will find peace.

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  Peace, Joy, Anxiety

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• Listen less to your own thoughts and more to God's thoughts.

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  Bible, Christian

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• Peace does not dwell in outward things but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain, if our will remains firm and submissive. Peace in this life springs from acquiescence to, not an exemption from, suffering.

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  Peace, Pain, Spring

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• There is but one way in which God should be loved, and that is to take no step except with Him and for Him, and to follow with a generous self-abandonment every thing which He requires.

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  Self, Way, Steps

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.103, Lulu.com

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