The best use one can make of his mind is to distrust it
More Quotes from Francois Fenelon:
It is only by fidelity in little things that the grace of true love to God can be sustained, and distinguished from a passing fervor of spirit.... No one can well believe that our piety is sincere, when our behavior is lax and irregular in its little details. What probability is there that we should not hesitate to make the greatest sacrifices, when we shrink from the smallest.Francois Fenelon
Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
Francois Fenelon
A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.
Francois Fenelon
Tell God all that is in your heart, as one unloads one's heart, it's pleasures, and it's pains, to a dear friend. Tell him your troubles, that he may comfort you tell him your joys, that he may sober them tell him your longings, that he may purify them tell him your dislikes, that he may help you coquer them talk to him of your temptations, that he may shield you from them show him the wounds of your heart, that he may heal them lay bare your indifference to good, your depraved tastes for evil, your instability. Tell him how self-love makes you unjust to others, how vanity tempts you to be insincere, how pride disguises you to yourself and others. If you thus pour out your weaknesses, needs, troubles, there will be no lack of what to say. You will never exhaust the subject. It is continually being renewed. People who have no secrets from each other never want for 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
Little opportunities should be improved.
Francois Fenelon
'When the Son of Man cometh, shall He find faith on the earth' If He should now come, would He find it in us What fruits of faith have we to show Do we look upon this life only as a short passage to a better Do we believe that we must suffer with Jesus Christ before we can reign with Him Do we consider this world as a deceitful appearance, and death as the entrance to true happiness Do we live by faith Does it animate us Do we relish the eternal truths it presents us with Are we as careful to nourish our souls with those truths as to maintain our bodies with proper diet 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.
Francois Fenelon
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