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
Francois Fenelon quotes about
bores-you amusement ease
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.
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.
live-in-the-moment moments present-moment
You really don't even own the present moment, for even this belongs to God.
christian choices path
It is not the multitude of hard duties, it is not the constraint and contention that advance us in our Christian course. On the contrary, it is the yielding of our wills without restriction and without choice to tread cheerfully every day in the path in which Providence leads us. It is to seek nothing, to be discouraged by nothing, to see our duty in the present moment, and to trust all else without reserve to the will and power of God.
simple guides
Make this simple rule the guide of your life: to have no will but God's.
friendship soul half
Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
rejected gift-from-god accounts
The gifts of God are not to be rejected on account of the channel that brings them.
relatives-and-friends giving want
Nothing is more false and more indiscreet than always to want to choose what mortifies us in everything. By this rule a person would soon ruin his health, his business, his reputation, his relations with his relatives and friends, in fact every good work which Providence gives him.
cures pursuit imaginary
Nothing is so costly as the pursuit of a cure for imaginary ills.
prayer desire praying
I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray; pray thyself in me.
humility done smallest
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.
courage despise peril
Before putting yourself in peril, it is necessary to foresee and fear it; but when one is there, nothing remains but to despise it.
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?
christian light wicked
Never let us be discouraged with ourselves. It is not when we are conscious of our faults that we are the most wicked; on the contrary, we are less so. We see by a brighter light; and let us remember for our consolation, that we never perceive our sins till we begin to cure them.