Quotes from Francois de Fenelon

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

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

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.

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.

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.

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

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