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• I am not in the least surprised that your impression of death becomes more lively, in proportion as age and infirmity bring it nearer. God makes use of this rough trial to undeceive us in respect to our courage, to make us feel our weakness, and to keep us in all humility in His hands.

  Francois Fenelon

  Death, Humility, Hands

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• Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

  Francois Fenelon

  Friendship, Soul, Bears

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• Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.

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  Prayer, Weakness, Praying

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• Nothing is more false and more indiscreet than always to want to choose what mortifies us in everything. By this rule a person would soon ruin his health, his business, his reputation, his relations with his relatives and friends, in fact every good work which Providence gives him.

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  Relatives And Friends, Giving, Want

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• The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.

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  War, Book, Past

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• I believe that we are conforming to the divine order and the will of Providence when we are doing even indifferent things that belong to our condition.

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  Believe, Divine Order, Providence

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• God has not chosen to save us without crosses; as He has not seen fit to create men at once in the full vigor of manhood, but has suffered them to grow up by degrees amid all the perils and weaknesses of youth.

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  Growing Up, Men, Weakness

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.84, Lulu.com

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• If we love Him infinitely more than we do ourselves, we make an unconditional sacr Here it is that the Spirit teaches us all truth; for all truth is eminently contained in this sacrifice of love, where the soul strips itself of every thing to present it to God.

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  Sacrifice, Soul, Spirit

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• There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

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  Life, Success, Religious

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• Crosses are of no use to us but inasmuch as we yield ourselves up to them and forget ourselves.

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  Yield, Use, Forget

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• Despondency is not a state of humility; on the contrary, it is the vexation and despair of a cowardly pride--nothing is worse; whether we stumble or whether we fall, we must only think of rising again and going on in our course.

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  Fall, Humility, Pride

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• There is no real elevation of mind in a contempt of little things; it is, on the contrary, from too narrow views that we consider those things of little importance which have in fact such extensive consequences.

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  Real, Views, Mind

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• The kingdom of God which is within us consists in our willing whatever God wills, always, in every thing, and without reservation; and thus His kingdom comes; for His will is then done as it is in heaven, since we will nothing but what is dictated by His sovereign pleasure.

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  Heaven, Done, Kingdoms

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.112, Lulu.com

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• No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades; it only makes hypocrites.

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  Hypocrite, Mind, Conviction

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• I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray; pray thyself in me.

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  Prayer, Desire, Praying

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• There are two principal points of attention necessary for the preservation of this constant spirit of prayer which unites us with God; we must continually seek to cherish it, and we must avoid everything that tends to make us lose it.

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  Prayer, Two, Attention

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.193, 1895.

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• Speak, move, act in peace.

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  Moving, Speak

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• All wars are civil ones; for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.

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  War, Men, Blood

  "Dialogues of the Dead, Together with Some Fable Composed for the Education of a Prince". Book by François Fénelon, vol. 1 (p. 87), 1754.

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• 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.

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  Christian, Jesus, Humble

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• The greatest defect of common education is, that we are in the habit of putting pleasure all on one side, and weariness on the other; all weariness in study, all pleasure in idleness.

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  Education, Sides, Common

  "Selections from the Writings of Fenelon: With an Appendix, Containing a Memoir of His Life". Book by François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon, Eliza Lee Cabot Follen (Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little and Wilkins), p. 72, 1829.

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• The blood of a nation ought never to be shed except for its own preservation in the utmost extremity.

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  War, Blood, Preservation

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• We may as well tolerate all religions, since God Himself tolerates all.

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  Religion, May, Wells

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• 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.

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  Giving Up, Light, Grace

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

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• Real friends are our greatest joy and our greatest sorrow. It were almost to be wished that all true and faithful friends should expire on the same day.

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  Friends, Real, Joy

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• It is often our own imperfection which makes us reprove the imperfection of others; a sharp-sighted self-love of others

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  Inspiration, Self, Self Love

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