François Fénelon: Quotes about love

François Fénelon was Catholic bishop. Explore interesting quotes on love.
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“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.”

François Fénelon

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 399.

Love , Faith , Feeling , Imagination

“If there is any thing that can render the soul calm, dissipate its scruples, and dispel its fears, sweeten its sufferings by the anointing of love, impart strength to it in all its actions, and spread abroad the joy of the Holy Spirit in its countenance and words, it is a simple, free, and child-like repose in the arms of God.”

François Fénelon

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 446.

Love , God , Fear , Soul

“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.”

François Fénelon

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 169.

Love , Suffering , Happiness

“We sleep in peace in the arms of God when we yield ourselves up to His providence, in a delightful consciousness of His tender mercies; no more restless uncertainties, no more anxious desires, no more impatience at the place we are in, for it is God who has put us there, and who holds us in His arms. Can we be unsafe where He has placed us, and where He watches over us as a parent watches a child? This confiding repose, in which earthly care sleeps, is the true vigilance of the heart; yielding itself up to God, with no other support than Him, it thus watches while we sleep. This is the love of Him that will not sleep even in death.”

François Fénelon

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 600.

Love , Death , God , Peace

“This is the love that does all things; that brings to pass even the evils we suffer; so shaping them that they are but instruments of preparing the good which, as yet, has not arrived.”

François Fénelon

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 270.

Love , Suffering , Evil

“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.”

François Fénelon

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 270.

Love , God

“Thou lovest like an infinite God when Thou lovest; Thou movest heaven and earth to save Thy loved ones. Thou becomest man, a babe, the vilest of men, covered with reproaches, dying with infamy and under the pangs of the cross; all this is not too much for an infinite love.”

François Fénelon

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 271.

Love , Men , God

“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.”

François Fénelon

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 396.

Love , Suffering , Happiness

“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.”

François Fénelon

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 542.

Love , God , Way

“God's treasury where He keeps His children's gifts will be like many a mother's store of relics of her children, full of things of no value to others, but precious in His eyes for the love's sake that was in them.”

François Fénelon

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 262.

Love , God , Children

“If we love Him infinitely more than we do ourselves, we make an unconditional sacr”

François Fénelon

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Love

“"My Father, it is dark!" "Child, take my hand,
Cling close to me; I'll lead thee through the land,
Trust my all-seeing care, so shalt thou stand
'Midst glory bright above."
Can we be unsafe where God has placed us, and where He
watches over us as a parent a child that he loves?”

François Fénelon

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 264.

Love , God , Parent

“The good historian is not for any time or any country: while he loves his fatherland, he never flatters it in anything.”

François Fénelon

Le bon historien n'est d'aucun temps ni d'aucun pays: quoiqu'il aime sa patrie, il ne la flatte jamais en rien.
Lettre sur les Occupations de l'Académie Française, sect. 8, cited from Œuvres de Fénelon (Paris: Lefèvre, 1835) vol. 3, p. 240; translation by Patrick Riley, from Hans Blom et al. (eds.) Monarchisms in the Age of Enlightenment (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007) p. 86.

Love , Time , Country

“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.”

François Fénelon

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 543.

Love , God , Truth , Soul

“All the human kind is but one family, dispersed over the face of the whole earth; all men are brothers, and ought to love each other as such.”

François Fénelon

Tout le genre humain n’est qu’une famille dispersée sur la face de toute la terre. Tous les peuples sont frères, et doivent s’aimer comme tels.
Bk. 9, p. 67; translation p. 162.
Les aventures de Télémaque (1699)

Love , Men , Family

“If we love Him infinitely more than we do ourselves, we make an unconditional sacrifice of ourselves to His good pleasure, desiring only to love Him and to forget ourselves. He who thus loses his soul shall find it again with eternal life.”

François Fénelon

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 542.

Love , Life , Pleasure , Soul

“When you come to be sensibly touched, the scales will fall from your eyes; and by the penetrating eyes of love you will discern that which your other eyes will never see.”

François Fénelon

Quoted by Marilyn Ferguson in The Aquarian Conspiracy, Chapter 5 (1980)

Love , Making love