Francois Fenelon Quotes - Page 4

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• Nothing marks so much the solid advancement of a soul, as the view of one's wretchedness without anxiety and without discouragement.

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  Views, Anxiety, Soul

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• Temptations are a file which rub off much of the rust of our self-confidence.

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  Self Confidence, Temptation, Rust

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• If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.

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  Annoyed, Should, Defects

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• I would have every minister of the gospel address his audience with the zeal of a friend, with the generous energy of a father, and with the exuberant affection of a mother.

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  Mother, Father, Preaching The Gospel

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• We are never less alone than when we are in the society of a single, faithful friend; never less deserted than when we are carried in tne arms of the All-Powerful.

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  Powerful, Faithful, Arms

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• If the crowns of all the kingdoms of the empire were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading I would spurn them all.

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  Love, Book, Reading

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• I no longer desire anything but to be Thine.

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  Desire

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• He who prays without confidence cannot hope that his prayers will be granted.

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  Prayer, Praying, Granted

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• Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies

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  Use, Quacks, Talkers

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• The youth who, like a woman, loves to adorn his person, has renounced all claim to wisdom and to glory; glory is due to those only who dare to associate with pain, and have trampled pleasure under their feet.

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  Pain, Vanity, Feet

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• There is no more dangerous illusion than the fancies by which people try to avoid illusion.

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  People, Trying, Fancy

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• Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.

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  Order, Taste, Few Words

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• O Lord, I do most cheerfully commit all unto Thee.

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  Lord, Thee, Resignation

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• Oh! how seldom the soul is silent, in order that God may speak.

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  Order, Soul, May

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• The greater our dread of crosses, the more necessary they are for us.

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  Trouble, Crosses, Dread

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• Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves

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  Children, Forgiving, Excellent

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• The history of the world suggests that without love of God there is little likelihood of a love for man that does not become corrupt.

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  Men, Doe, World

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• As to our friend , I pray God to bestow upon him a simplicity that shall give him peace . Happy are they indeed who can bear their sufferings in the enjoyment of this simple peace and perfect acquiesence in the will of God.

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  Simple, Giving, Perfect

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• Fear is like the strong medicine used to fight serious diseases; it purges, but it also alters your temperament and wears out the body organs. A person who is driven by fear will always be the weaker for it

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  Strong, Fighting, Medicine

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• To just read the Bible, attend church, and avoid “big” sins-is this passionate, wholehearted love for God?

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  Church, Passionate, Sin

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• As the reflections of our pride upon our defects are bitter, disheartening, and vexatious, so the return of the soul towards God is peaceful and sustained by confidence. You will find by experience how much more your progress will be aided by this simple, peaceful turning towards God, than by all your chagrin and spite at .the faults that exist in you.

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  Pride, Reflection, Simple

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

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  Blessing, Grace

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

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• When tempted, the shortest and surest way is to act like a little child at the breast; when we show it a frightful monster, it shrinks back and buries its face in its mother's bosom, that it may no longer behold it.

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  Mother, Children, Temptation

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.51, Lulu.com

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• It is better to die than to tell a lie

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  Lying, Dies

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• Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we shall become indulgent toward those of others.

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  Thinking, Easily Offended, Infirmity

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