Francois Fenelon Quotes - Page 8

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• The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls.

  Francois Fenelon

  Passion, Order, Support

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• God felt, God tasted and enjoyed is indeed God, but God with those gifts which flatter the soul, God in darkness, in privation, in forsakenness, in sensibility, is so much God, that he is so to speak God bare and alone. Shall we fear this death, which is to produce in us the true divine life of grace?

  Francois Fenelon

  Christian, Grace, Soul

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• Violent excitement exhausts the mind and leaves it withered and sterile.

  Francois Fenelon

  Mind, Violence, Excitement

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• Avoid all refined speculations; confine yourself to simple reflections, and recur to them frequently. Those who pass too rapidly from one truth to another feed their curiosity and restlessness; they even distract their intellect with too great a multiplicity of views. Give every truth time to send down deep root into the heart.

  Francois Fenelon

  Heart, Reflection, Simple

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