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• How dangerous it is for our salvation, how unworthy of God and of ourselves, how pernicious even for the peace of our hearts, to want always to stay where we are! Our whole life was only given us to advance us by great strides toward our heavenly country.

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  Country, Heart, Want

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• It is only by fidelity in little things that the grace of true love to God can be sustained, and distinguished from a passing fervor of spirit. . . . No one can well believe that our piety is sincere, when our behavior is lax and irregular in its little details. What probability is there that we should not hesitate to make the greatest sacrifices, when we shrink from the smallest?

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  Love, Believe, Sacrifice

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• There are some people who think that they should be always mourning, that they should put a continual constraint upon themselves, and feel a disgust for those amusements to which they are obliged to submit. For my own part, I confess that I know not how to conform myself to these rigid notions. I prefer something more simple, which I also think would be more pleasing to God.

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  Simple, Thinking, People

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• Prayer is so necessary, and the source of so many blessings, that he who has discovered the treasure cannot be prevented from having recourse to it, whenever he has an opportunity.

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  Prayer, Blessing, Opportunity

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.125, Lulu.com

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• Our piety must be weak and imperfect if it do not conquer our fear of death.

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  Imperfect, Conquer, Weak

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• A cross borne in simplicity, without the interference of self-love to augment it, is only half a cross. Suffering in this simplicity of love, we are not only happy in spile of the cross, but because of it; for love is pleased in suffering for the Well Beloved, and the cross which forms us into His image is a consoling bond of love.

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  Love Is, Self, Simplicity

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.169, 1895.

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• When kings interfere in matters of religion, they enslave instead of protecting it.

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  Kings, Religion, Matter

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• A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.

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  Country, Time, Patriot

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• There were some who said that a man at the point of death was more free than all others, because death breaks every bond, and over the dead the united world has no power.

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  Death, Men, World

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• Let us endeavor to commence every enterprise with a pure view to the glory of God, continue it without distraction, and finish it without impatience.

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  Views, Glory, Distraction

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.125, Lulu.com

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• God would behold in you a simplicity which will contain so much the more of His wisdom as it contains less of your own.

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  Simplicity

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.78, Lulu.com

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• Thou lovest like an infinite God when Thou lovest; Thou movest heaven and earth to save Thy loved ones. Thou becomest man, a babe, the vilest of men, covered with reproaches, dying with infamy and under the pangs of the cross; all this is not too much for an infinite love.

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  Men, Heaven, Dying

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.14, Lulu.com

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• How desirable is this simplicity! Who will give it to me? I will quit all else; it is the pearl of great price.

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  Giving, Simplicity, Pearls

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• Little opportunities should be improved.

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  Opportunity, Littles, Should

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• If we were faultless, we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate. If we were to acknowledge honestly that we have not virtue enough to bear patiently with our neighbor's weaknesses, we should show our own imperfection, and this alarms our vanity.

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  Vanity, Imperfection, Annoyed

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• Were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.

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  Prayer, Work, Ought

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• Pity enlarges the heart.

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  Heart, Pity

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• This is the love that does all things; that brings to pass even the evils we suffer; so shaping them that they are but instruments of preparing the good which, as yet, has not arrived.

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  Evil, Suffering, Doe

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.14, Lulu.com

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• Mankind, by the perverse depravity of their nature, esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it is possessed, and torment themselves with fruitless wishes for that which is beyond their reach.

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  Wish, Moments, Depravity

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• I had often heard Mentor say, that the voluptuous were never brave, and I now found by experience that it was true; for the Cyprians whose jollity had been so extravagant and tumultuous, now sunk under a sense of their danger and wept like women. I heard nothing but the screams of terror and the wailings of hopeless distress. Some lamented the loss of pleasures that were never to return; but none had presence of mind either to undertake or direct the navigation of the menaced vessel.

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  Loss, Presence Of Mind, Brave

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• How does our will become sanctified? By conforming itself unreservedly to that of God.

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  Doe, Gods Will, Conform

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• Sordid and infamous sensuality, the most dreadful evil that issued from the box of Pandora, corrupts every heart, and eradicates every virtue. Fly! wherefore dost thou linger? Fly, cast not one look behind thee; nor let even thy thought return to the accursed evil for a moment.

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  Heart, Evil, Looks

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• Do we accustom ourselves to see all things in the light of faith? Do we correct all our judgments by it? Alas! The greater part of Christians think and act like mere heathens; if we judge (as we justly may) of their faith by their practice, we must conclude they have no faith at all.

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  Christian, Thinking, Light

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• It is this unquiet self-love that renders us so sensitive. The sick man, who sleeps ill, thinks the night long. We exaggerate, from cowardice, all the evils which we encounter; they are great, but our sensibility increases them. The true way to bear them is to yield ourselves up with confidence to God.

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  Sleep, Night, Men

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• Before putting yourself in peril, it is necessary to foresee and fear it; but when one is there, nothing remains but to despise it.

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  Courage, Despise, Peril

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