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
crowns exchange feet kingdoms laid love riches
If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all
disappointment light essentials
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.
church passionate sin
To just read the Bible, attend church, and avoid “big” sins-is this passionate, wholehearted love for God?
doe gods-will conform
How does our will become sanctified? By conforming itself unreservedly to that of God.
pain feet vanity
The youth who, like a woman, loves to adorn his person, has renounced all claim to wisdom and to glory; glory is due to those only who dare to associate with pain, and have trampled pleasure under their feet.
prayer moving speak
Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer.
trouble crosses dread
The greater our dread of crosses, the more necessary they are for us.
yield use forget
Crosses are of no use to us but inasmuch as we yield ourselves up to them and forget ourselves.
real views mind
There is no real elevation of mind in a contempt of little things; it is, on the contrary, from too narrow views that we consider those things of little importance which have in fact such extensive consequences.
growing-up men vigor
God has not chosen to save us without crosses; as He has not seen fit to create men at once in the full vigor of manhood, but has suffered them to grow up by degrees amid all the perils and weaknesses of youth.
thinking easily-offended infirmity
Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we shall become indulgent toward those of others.
time regret loss
Time is given us that we may take care for eternity; and eternity will not be too long to regret the loss of our time if we have misspent it.
wise time two
God, who is liberal in all his other gifts, shows us, by the wise economy of His providence, how circumspect we ought to be in the management of our time, for He never gives us two moments together.
jesus home fighting
On this earth all is temptation. Crosses tempt us by irritating our pride, and prosperity by flattering it. Our life is a continual combat, but one in which Jesus Christ fights for us. We must pass on unmoved, while temptations rage around us, as the traveler, overtaken by a storm, simply wraps his cloak more closely about him, and pushes on more vigorously toward his destined home.