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
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.
knowing giving moments
Frequently a big advantage can be gained by knowing how to give in at the right moment.
prayer desire praying
I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray; pray thyself in me.
prayer weakness praying
Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.
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.
loss presence-of-mind brave
I had often heard Mentor say, that the voluptuous were never brave, and I now found by experience that it was true; for the Cyprians whose jollity had been so extravagant and tumultuous, now sunk under a sense of their danger and wept like women. I heard nothing but the screams of terror and the wailings of hopeless distress. Some lamented the loss of pleasures that were never to return; but none had presence of mind either to undertake or direct the navigation of the menaced vessel.
doe gods-will conform
How does our will become sanctified? By conforming itself unreservedly to that of God.
church passionate sin
To just read the Bible, attend church, and avoid “big” sins-is this passionate, wholehearted love for God?
wind sail
The wind of God is always blowing... but you must hoist your sail.
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.
religion may wells
We may as well tolerate all religions, since God Himself tolerates all.