Francois Fenelon famous quotes

03-21-2025

People who have no secrets from each other never want for a subject of conversation. They do not weigh their words, for there is nothing to be held back, neither do they seek for something to say. They talk out of the abundance of their heart, without consideration they say just what they think. Blessed are they who attain to such familiar, unreserved intercourse with God.
-- Francois Fenelon

#Blessed #Heart #Thinking
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
-- Francois Fenelon

#Brother #War #Hippie
Time spent in prayer is never wasted.
-- Francois Fenelon

#Time #Prayer #Wasted Time
Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.
-- Francois Fenelon

#Prayer #Essentials #Christianity
You can often help others more by correcting your own faults than theirs. Remember, and you should, because of your own experience, that allowing God to correct your faults is not easy. Be patient with people, wait for God to work with them as He wills.
-- Francois Fenelon

#Helping Others #People #Waiting
The more you say, the less people remember.
-- Francois Fenelon

#People #Remember
Carefully purify your conscience from daily faults; suffer no sin to dwell in your heart; small as it may seem, it obscures the light of grace, weighs down the soul, and hinders that constant communion with Jesus Christ which it should be your pleasure to cultivate.
-- Francois Fenelon

#Jesus #Heart #Light
Temptations are a file which rub off much of the rust of our self-confidence.
-- Francois Fenelon

#Self Confidence #Self #Temptation
All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.
-- Francois Fenelon

#Spiritual #Expectations #Fruition
A general rule for the good use of time is to accustom oneself to live in a continual dependence on the Spirit of God.
-- Francois Fenelon

#Use #Spirit #Holy
If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.
-- Francois Fenelon

#Annoyed #Should #Defects
I love my country better than my family; but I love humanity better than my country.
-- Francois Fenelon

#Country #Humanity #My Family
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.
-- Francois Fenelon

#Peace #Joy #Anxiety
We must have faith during the period of our grief. We think that our afflictions will be greater than we can bear, but we do not know the strength of our own hearts, nor the power of God. He knows all. He knows every folding of the heart and also the extent of the sorrow that he inflicts. What we think will overwhelm us entirely only subdues and conquers our pride. Our renewed spirit rises from its subjugation with a celestial strength and consolation.
-- Francois Fenelon

#Grief #Heart #Pride
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.
-- Francois Fenelon

#Self #Dying #Finals
All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.
-- Francois Fenelon

#Country #Brother #Integrity
The history of the world suggests that without love of God there is little likelihood of a love for man that does not become corrupt.
-- Francois Fenelon

#Men #Doe #World
We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.
-- Francois Fenelon

#Gymnastics #Men #Trying
God never ceases to speak to us, but the noise of the world without and the tumult of our passions within bewilder us and prevent us from listening to him
-- Francois Fenelon

#Prayer #Passion #Listening
We must truly serve those whom we appear to command; we must bear with their imperfections, correct them with gentleness and patience, and lead them in the way to heaven.
-- Francois Fenelon

#Imperfection #Heaven #Way
Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.
-- Francois Fenelon

#Order #Taste #Few Words
How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.
-- Francois Fenelon

#Humility #Soul #Quiet
Violent excitement exhausts the mind and leaves it withered and sterile.
-- Francois Fenelon

#Mind #Violence #Excitement
Listen less to your own thoughts and more to God's thoughts.
-- Francois Fenelon

#Bible #Christian
As long as anything in this world means anything to you, your freedom is only a word. You are like a bird that is held by a leash; you can only fly so far.
-- Francois Fenelon

#Powerful #Mean #Long

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