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Francois Fenelon

François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon (French: [də la mɔt fenəlɔ̃]), more commonly known as François Fénelon (6 August 1651 – 7 January 1715), was a French Roman Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet and writer. He today is remembered mostly as the author of The Adventures of Telemachus, first published in 1699.

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Speak, move, act in peace.

Act, Move, Moving, Peace, Speak

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

Bible, Christian, Listen, Thoughts

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.

Anxiety, God, Joy, Peace

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.

Contained, Sacrifice, Soul, Spirit, Teaches

Above all, live in the present moment and God will give you all the grace you need.

Giving, God, Grace, Live, Live In The Moment

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

Enslave, Kings, Matter, Matters, Protecting, Religion

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

Desirable, Giving, Pearls, Price, Simplicity

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.

Death, Hands, Humility, Infirmity, Respect, Trial

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?

Believe, Love, Passing, Sacrifice, Sincere

True love goes ever straight forward, not in its own strength, but esteeming itself as nothing. Then indeed we are truly happy. The cross is no longer a cross when there is no self to suffer under it.

Crosses, Esteeming, Forward, Self, Suffering

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.

Alone, Arms, Carried, Faithful, Powerful, Tne

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.

Funny, Humorous, People, Bargain, Return, Give

The greatest of all crosses is self. If we die in part every day, we shall have but little to do on the last. These little daily deaths will destroy the power of the final dying.

Die, Dying, Final, Finals, Power, Self

I love my country better than my family; but I love humanity better than my country.

Country, Humanity, My Family, Family, Love

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

Complaining, Failure, Faults, Take

To will everything that God wills, and to will it always, in all circumstances and without reservations: that is the kingdom of God which is entirely within.

Catholic, Circumstances, Entirely, Everything, Kingdoms, Reservations

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.

Real, Views, Mind, Things, Contempt, Importance

Wine is the source of the greatest evils among communities. It causes diseases, quarrels, seditions, idleness, aversion to labor, and family disorders. . . . It is a species of poison that causes madness. It does not make a man die, but it degrades him into a brute. Men may preserve their health and vigor without wine; with wine they run the risk of ruining their health and losing their morals.

Diseases, Make, Men, Morals, Running, Wine

To pray is to desire; but it is to desire what God would have us desire.

Desire, God, Pray, Prayer, Praying

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

Conviction, Force, Hypocrite, Hypocrites, Mind

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