Quotes from Francois Fenelon

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.

We must truly serve those whom we appear to command; we must bear with their imperfections, correct them with gentleness and patience, and lead them in the way to heaven.

There is never any peace for those who resist God.

Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation - speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.

The greatest of all crosses is self. If we die in part every day, we shall have but little to do on the last. These little daily deaths will destroy the power of the final dying.

How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.

Listen less to your own thoughts and more to God's thoughts.

Faith is letting down our nets into the transparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall draw.

Above all, live in the present moment and God will give you all the grace you need.

Can we be unsafe where God has placed us, and where He watches over us as a parent a child that he loves?

The presence of God calms the soul, and gives it quiet and repose.

If God bores you, tell Him that He bores you, that you prefer the vilest amusements to His presence, that you only feel at your ease when you are far from Him.

The realization of God's presence is the one sovereign remedy against temptation.

To will everything that God wills, and to will it always, in all circumstances and without reservations: that is the kingdom of God which is entirely within.

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.

God is so good that He only awaits our desire to overwhelm us with the gift of himself.

The smallest things become great when God requires them of us; they are small only in themselves; they are always great when they are done for God.

O God, the creature knows not to what end Thou hast made Him; teach him, and write in the depths of his soul that the clay must suffer itself to be shaped at the will of the potter.

The gifts of God are not to be rejected on account of the channel that brings them.

We may as well tolerate all religions, since God Himself tolerates all.

God would behold in you a simplicity which will contain so much the more of His wisdom as it contains less of your own.

Oh! how seldom the soul is silent, in order that God may speak.

Those who are wholly God's are always happy.

It is when God appears to have abandoned us that we must abandon ourselves most wholly to God.