Francois Fenelon Quotes

He who prays without confidence cannot hope that his prayers will be granted.

The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.

We are not to choose the manner in which our blessings shall be bestowed.

Nothing is so costly as the pursuit of a cure for imaginary ills.

I love my country better than my family; but I love humanity better than my country.

As to our friend , I pray God to bestow upon him a simplicity that shall give him peace . Happy are they indeed who can bear their sufferings in the enjoyment of this simple peace and perfect acquiesence in the will of God.

I am not in the least surprised that your impression of death becomes more lively, in proportion as age and infirmity bring it nearer. God makes use of this rough trial to undeceive us in respect to our courage, to make us feel our weakness, and to keep us in all humility in His hands.

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.

Real friends are our greatest joy and our greatest sorrow. It were almost to be wished that all true and faithful friends should expire on the same day.

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.

Let gratitude for the past inspire us with trust for the future.

Pity enlarges the heart.