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François Fénelon was Catholic bishop. Explore interesting quotes on use.

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“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.

“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.

“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.

“God never makes us sensible of our weakness except to give us of His strength.”

François Fénelon

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 283.

“The kingdom of God which is within us consists in our willing whatever God wills, always, in every thing, and without reservation; and thus His kingdom comes; for His will is then done as it is in heaven, since we will nothing but what is dictated by His sovereign pleasure.”

François Fénelon

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 269.

“God works in a mysterious way in grace as well as in nature, concealing His operations under an imperceptible succession of events, and thus keeps us always in the darkness of faith.”

François Fénelon

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 280.

“…nothing will make us so tender and indulgent to the faults of others as a view of our own.”

François Fénelon

L'humilité produit le support d'autrui. La vue seule de nos misères peut nous rendre compatissants et indulgents pour celles d'autrui <br class="br"> Œuvres complètes de François de Salignac de La Mothe Fénelon http://www.passtheword.org/DIALOGS-FROM-THE-PAST/innerlife.htm.

“"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.

“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.”

François Fénelon

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 240.

“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.

“In the light of eternity we shall see that what we desired would have been fatal to us, and that what we would have avoided was essential to our well-being.”

François Fénelon

Nous verrons à sa lumière, dans l'éternité, que ce que nous désirions nous eût été funeste, et que ce que nous voulions éviter était essentiel à notre bonheur.
Instructions et avis sur divers points de la morale et de la perfection chrétienne, ch. 18, cited from Œuvres de Fénelon (Paris: Firmin Didot, 1845) vol. 1, p. 325; translation from Selections from the Writings of Fénelon (Boston: Samuel G. Simpkins, 1844) p. 82.

“Let us endeavor to commence every enterprise with a pure view to the glory of God, continue it without distraction, and finish it without impatience.”

François Fénelon

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 128.