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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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“Alas! how many souls there are full of self, and yet desirous of doing good and serving God, but in such a way as to suit themselves; who desire to impose rules upon God as to His manner of drawing them to Himself. They want to serve and possess Him, but they are not willing to be possessed by Him.”

Way Want Soul Self Desire Willing Drawing Suits Selfishness Serving Possessed Serving God Alas Doing Good

Author:Francois Fenelon

“A cross borne in simplicity, without the interference of self-love to augment it, is only half a cross. Suffering in this simplicity of love, we are not only happy in spile of the cross, but because of it; for love is pleased in suffering for the Well Beloved, and the cross which forms us into His image is a consoling bond of love.”

Wells Self Form Suffering Love Is Half Self Love Crosses Simplicity Beloved Interference Consoling Bonds Of Love

Author:Francois Fenelon

“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.”

Self Suffering Crosses Truly Happy

Book:Spiritual Progress

Source: Spiritual Progress

“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.”

Way Should Self Steps One Way Generous Abandonment

Book:Spiritual Progress

Source: Spiritual Progress

“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

“It is this unquiet self-love that renders us so sensitive. The sick man, who sleeps ill, thinks the night long. We exaggerate, from cowardice, all the evils which we encounter; they are great, but our sensibility increases them. The true way to bear them is to yield ourselves up with confidence to God.”

Thinking Men Way Long Self Night Evil Sleep Bears Self Love Sick Increase Ill Sensitive Encounters Yield Cowardice Sensibility Sick Man

Author:Francois Fenelon

“It is often our own imperfection which makes us reprove the imperfection of others; a sharp-sighted self-love of others”

Self Inspiration Self Love Imperfection

Author:Francois Fenelon

“Temptations are a file which rub off much of the rust of our self-confidence.”

Self Self Confidence Temptation Files Rust

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

“So long as we are full of self we are shocked at the faults of others. Let us think often of our own sin, and we shall be lenient to the sins of others.”

Thinking Long Self Sin Faults Shocked Fault Finding Lenient

Author:Francois Fenelon

“That love of self, which the world advocates, is a thousand times more dangerous than any poison.”

World Self Suffering Dangerous Self Love Thousand Poison

Author:Francois Fenelon

“Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.”

Knows Self Faults Examination Charitable Self-examination

Author:Francois Fenelon

“Simplicity brings back the joys of Paradise. Not that we have pure pleasure without a moment's suffering, but when we are surrendered to God, we are not grasping for pleasure, and even our troubles are received with thanksgiving. This inner harmony, and this deliverance from fear and the tormenting desires of self, create a satisfaction in the soul which is above all the intoxicating joys of this world put together.”

World Soul Self Moments Together Joy Desire Suffering Pleasure Trouble This World Pure Harmony Simplicity Satisfaction Paradise Deliverance Grasping

Author:Francois Fenelon

“Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.”

Love Self Self Love Despair Wounded Discouragement Knowing Who You Are

Author:Francois Fenelon

About the Author

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

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