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Francois de Fenelon Quotes


A French Roman Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet and writer.
Francois de Salignac de la Mothe-Fenelon, more commonly known as Francois Fenelon, was a French Roman Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet and writer. He today is remembered mostly as one of the main advocates of quietism and as the author of The adventures of Telemachus, a thinly veiled attack on the French monarchy, first published in 1699.

Here are some famous quotes by Francois de Fenelon.

Time spent in prayer is never wasted.

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Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed by prudence.

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Worry is the cross which we make for ourselves by overanxiety.

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Even if no command to pray had existed our very weakness would have suggested it.

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I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray; pray thyself in me.

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Mankind by the perverse depravity of their nature esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it is possessed and torment themselves with fruitless wishes for that which is beyond their reach.

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Peace does not dwell in outward things but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain if our will remains firm and submissive. Peace in this life springs from acquiescence to not in an exemption from suffering.