Fenelon Let Go Quotes

#1. This is the love that does all things; that brings to pass even the evils we suffer; so shaping them that they are but instruments of preparing the good which, as yet, has not arrived.

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#2. True love goes ever straight forward, not in its own strength, but esteeming itself as nothing. Then indeed we are truly happy. The cross is no longer a cross when there is no self to suffer under it.

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#3. 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.

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

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#5. 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 an exemption from, suffering.

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#6. The great point is to renounce your own wisdom by simplicity of walk, and to be ready to give up the favor, esteem, and approbation of every one, whenever the path in which God leads you passes that way.

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#7. The more you say, the less people remember.

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#8. Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.

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#9. The most essential point is lowliness.

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#10. All wars are civil ones; for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.

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#11. The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.

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#12. The blood of a nation ought never to be shed except for its own preservation in the utmost extremity.

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#13. Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.

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#14. We may be sure that it is the love of God only that can make us come out of self. If His powerful hand did not sustain us, we should not know how to take the first step in that direction.

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#15. It is often our own imperfection which makes us reprove the imperfection of others; a sharp-sighted self-love of others

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

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#17. You can often help others more by correcting your own faults than theirs. Remember, and you should, because of your own experience, that allowing God to correct your faults is not easy. Be patient with people, wait for God to work with them as He wills.

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#18. Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain.

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#19. I no longer desire anything but to be Thine.

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#20. 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.

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#21. 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.

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

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#23. Crosses are of no use to us but inasmuch as we yield ourselves up to them and forget ourselves.

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#24. 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.

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#25. O Lord, I do most cheerfully commit all unto Thee.

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#26. As long as anything in this world means anything to you, your freedom is only a word. You are like a bird that is held by a leash; you can only fly so far.

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#27. We must avoid fastidiousness; neatness, when it is moderate, is a virtue; but when it is carried to an extreme, it narrows the mind.

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#28. Time spent in prayer is never wasted.

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

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#30. Let us endeavor to commence every enterprise with a pure view to the glory of God, continue it without distraction, and finish it without impatience.

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