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François Fénelon Quotes (1651-1715)
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About François Fénelon
François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, Archbishop of Cambrai (August 6 1651 – January 7 1715) was a French educationalist, critic, poet, and political and religious philosopher.
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“If we love Him infinitely more than we do ourselves, we make an unconditional sacr”
“Sur-tout ne vous laissez point ensorceler par les attraits diaboliques de la géométrie.”
“D'ordinaire, ceux qui gouvernent les enfants ne leur pardonnent rien, et se pardonnent tout à eux-mêmes.”
“L'humilité produit le support d'autrui. La vue seule de nos misères peut nous rendre compatissants et indulgents pour celles d'autrui”
“Toutes les guerres sont civiles; car c'est toujours l'homme contre l'homme qui répand son propre sang, qui déchire ses propres entrailles.”
“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.”
“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 the arms of the All-Powerful.”
“When you come to be sensibly touched, the scales will fall from your eyes; and by the penetrating eyes of love you will discern that which your other eyes will never see.”
“This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave; it is but misery, vanity, and folly; a phantom, — the very fashion of which "passeth away."”
“God works in a mysterious way in grace as well as in nature, concealing His operations under an imperceptible succession of events, and thus keeps us always in the darkness of faith.”
“Pure love is in the will alone; it is no sentimental love, for the imagination has no part in it; it loves, if we may so express it, without feeling, as faith believes without seeing.”
“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.”
“There is but one way in which God should be loved, and that is to take no step except with Him and for Him, and to follow with a generous self-abandonment every thing which He requires.”
“If we had strength and faith enough to trust ourselves entirely to God, and follow Him simply wherever He should lead us, we should have no need of any great effort of mind to reach perfection.”
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François Fénelon on Prayer 4 quotes
“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.”
François Fénelon on Temptation 3 quotes
“The realization of God's presence is the one sovereign remedy against temptation.”
François Fénelon on Simplicity 3 quotes
“God would behold in you a simplicity which will contain so much the more of His wisdom as it contains less of your own.”
François Fénelon on Love 2 quotes
“The whole human race is just a family scattered across the face of the whole earth. All peoples are brothers, and must love each other as such.”
François Fénelon on Humility 2 quotes
“I pray often to God that He would keep you in the hollow of His hand. The most essential point is lowliness. It is profitable for all things, for it produces a teachable spirit which makes every thing easy.”
François Fénelon on Worship 2 quotes
“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 every thing that tends to make us lose it.”
François Fénelon on Soul
François Fénelon on Charity
“Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others as by self-examination thoroughly to know our own.”
François Fénelon on Worry
“Why art thou troubled and anxious about many things? One thing is needful — to love Him and to sit attentively at His feet.”
François Fénelon on Perfection
“It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.”
François Fénelon on Self-righteousness
François Fénelon on Asceticism
“Whoever will labor to get rid of self, to deny himself, according to the instructions of Christ, strikes at once at the root of every evil, and finds the germ of every good.”
What François Fénelon Said About Others
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François Fénelon on Historian
“The good historian is not for any time or any country: while he loves his fatherland, he never flatters it in anything.”
François Fénelon on Joseph Addison
“It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.”
About François Fénelon
François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, Archbishop of Cambrai (August 6 1651 – January 7 1715) was a French educationalist, critic, poet, and political and religious philosopher.