Francois Fenelon Quotes
We must avoid fastidiousness; neatness, when it is moderate, is a virtue; but when it is carried to an extreme, it narrows the mind.
To be faithful in prayer it is indispensable that we arrange all the activities of the day with a regularity that nothing can disturb
I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray; pray thyself in me.
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.
No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades; it only makes hypocrites.
How does our will become sanctified? By conforming itself unreservedly to that of God.
A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.
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.
Crosses are of no use to us but inasmuch as we yield ourselves up to them and forget ourselves.
When kings interfere in matters of religion, they enslave instead of protecting it.
The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls.
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.
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.
God, who is liberal in all his other gifts, shows us, by the wise economy of His providence, how circumspect we ought to be in the management of our time, for He never gives us two moments together.
It is often our own imperfection which makes us reprove the imperfection of others; a sharp-sighted self-love of others
Before putting yourself in peril, it is necessary to foresee and fear it; but when one is there, nothing remains but to despise it.
The more you say the less people remember. The fewer the words the greater the profit.
I love my country better than my family but I love humanity better than my country.
I would have every minister of the gospel address his audience with the zeal of a friend with the generous energy of a father and with the exuberant affection of a mother.