Francois Fenelon
Francois Fenelon
François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, more commonly known as François Fénelon, was a French Roman Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet and writer. He today is remembered mostly as the author of The Adventures of Telemachus, first published in 1699...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionClergyman
CountryFrance
moving speak
Speak, move, act in peace...
christian soul darkness
God felt, God tasted and enjoyed is indeed God, but God with those gifts which flatter the soul, God in darkness, in privation, in forsakenness, in sensibility, is so much God, that he is so to speak God bare and alone. Shall we fear this death, which is to produce in us the true divine life of grace?
bible christian
Listen less to your own thoughts and more to God's thoughts.
believe sacrifice grace
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?
prayer praying trouble
Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.
live-in-the-moment moments present-moment
You really don't even own the present moment, for even this belongs to God.
mother father preaching-the-gospel
I would have every minister of the gospel address his audience with the zeal of a friend, with the generous energy of a father, and with the exuberant affection of a mother.
prayer faithful regularity
To be faithful in prayer it is indispensable that we arrange all the activities of the day with a regularity that nothing can disturb
children forgiving excellent
Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves
friendship soul half
Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
death men world
There were some who said that a man at the point of death was more free than all others, because death breaks every bond, and over the dead the united world has no power.
order soul may
Oh! how seldom the soul is silent, in order that God may speak.
imperfect conquer fear-of-death
Our piety must be weak and imperfect if it do not conquer our fear of death.
vanity imperfection annoyed
If we were faultless, we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate. If we were to acknowledge honestly that we have not virtue enough to bear patiently with our neighbor's weaknesses, we should show our own imperfection, and this alarms our vanity.