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French poet born on August 6, 1651, and died on January 7, 1715. Francois Fenelon is renowned for his poetic works, which are characterized by their unique style and rich emotions, and have had a profound impact on the development of poetry both in France and around the world.

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Famous Francois Fenelon Quotes

“If God bores you, tell Him that He bores you, that you prefer the vilest amusements to His presence, that you only feel at your ease when you are far from Him.”

Ifs Feels Christianity Ease Bores Amusement Bores You

Author:Francois Fenelon

“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.”

Ifs Believe May Feelings Imagination Love Is Seeing Pure Sentimental Pure Love

Book:Spiritual Progress

Source: Spiritual Progress

“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.”

Ifs Soul Spirit Teach Sacrifice Truth Is Unconditional Love Sacrifice

Author:Francois Fenelon

“We may be sure that it is the love of God only that can make us come out of self. If His powerful hand did not sustain us, we should not know how to take the first step in that direction.”

Ifs Knows Should Firsts May Self Hands Powerful Steps Know How God Love First Steps

Book:Spiritual Progress

Source: Spiritual Progress

“Do we accustom ourselves to see all things in the light of faith? Do we correct all our judgments by it? Alas! The greater part of Christians think and act like mere heathens; if we judge (as we justly may) of their faith by their practice, we must conclude they have no faith at all.”

Ifs Thinking May Soul Light Christian Practice Greater Judging Judgment All Things Mere Alas Heathen

Author:Francois Fenelon

“Be content with doing calmly the little which depends upon yourself, and let all else be to you as if it were not.”

Ifs Littles Duty Depends

Author:Francois Fenelon

“If we were faultless, we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate. If we were to acknowledge honestly that we have not virtue enough to bear patiently with our neighbor's weaknesses, we should show our own imperfection, and this alarms our vanity.”

Ifs Should Enough Shows Virtue Bears Weakness Faults Neighbor Honestly Vanity Acknowledge Imperfection Associates Defects Alarms Annoyed

Author:Francois Fenelon

“Our piety must be weak and imperfect if it do not conquer our fear of death.”

Ifs Weak Conquer Imperfect Fear Of Death Piety

Author:Francois Fenelon

“Time is given us that we may take care for eternity; and eternity will not be too long to regret the loss of our time if we have misspent it.”

Ifs May Long Care Time Given Loss Regret Eternity Take Care Our Time

Author:Francois Fenelon

“Commit yourself then to God! He will be your guide. He Himself will travel with you, as we are told He did with the Israelites, to bring them step by step across the desert to the promised land. Ah! what will be your blessedness, if you will but surrender yourself into the hands of God, permitting Him to do whatever He will, not according to your desires, but according to His own good pleasure?”

Ifs Hands Desire Pleasure Steps Land Trust Guides Surrender Commit Desert Hands Of God Promised Land Blessedness

Book:Spiritual Progress

Source: Spiritual Progress

“If the crowns of all the kingdoms of the empire were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading I would spurn them all.”

Ifs Love Book Reading Feet Kingdoms Empires Crowns Love Of Reading

Author:Francois Fenelon

“Peace does not dwell in outward things but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain, if our will remains firm and submissive. Peace in this life springs from acquiescence to, not an exemption from, suffering.”

Ifs May Doe Soul Pain Suffering Peace Spring Remains This Life Preserves Firm Midst Submissive Acquiescence Exemption

Author:Francois Fenelon

“Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.”

Ifs Prayer Praying Weakness Command

Author:Francois Fenelon

“Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer.”

Ifs Moving Speak Prayer

Author:Francois Fenelon

“Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation - speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.”

Ifs Christian Religion Speak Prayer Ought Occupation Answers To Prayer Answered Prayers Prayers Not Being Answered

Author:Francois Fenelon

“The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.”

Ifs Book War Age Past Written Thousand Lips Ghost Shade Pale Blank Written Word

Author:Francois Fenelon

“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.”

Ifs Littles Self Lasts Dies Dying Crosses Finals

Author:Francois Fenelon

“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.”

Ifs Needs Should Mind Enough Effort Perfection Should Have Faith In God Great Effort Strength And Faith

Book:Spiritual Progress

Source: Spiritual Progress

“If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.”

Ifs Should Associates Defects Annoyed Being Annoyed

Author:Francois Fenelon

About the Author

Born: August 6, 1651
Died: January 7, 1715
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 180

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