Francois Fenelon Quotations | Page 2

Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we shall become indulgent toward those of others.

Time is given us that we may take care for eternity; and eternity will not be too long to regret the loss of our time if we have misspent it.

God, who is liberal in all his other gifts, shows us, by the wise economy of His providence, how circumspect we ought to be in the management of our time, for He never gives us two moments together.

On this earth all is temptation. Crosses tempt us by irritating our pride, and prosperity by flattering it. Our life is a continual combat, but one in which Jesus Christ fights for us. We must pass on unmoved, while temptations rage around us, as the traveler, overtaken by a storm, simply wraps his cloak more closely about him, and pushes on more vigorously toward his destined home.

Good taste rejects excessive nicety.

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

It is better to die than to tell a lie

Before putting yourself in peril, it is necessary to foresee and fear it; but when one is there, nothing remains but to despise it.

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.

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