The largest website for English phrases and quotes

The largest website for English phrases and quotes

Category: François Fénelon

François Fénelon

Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.

Good, Thoughts, Words

François Fénelon

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

Men, Brothers, Because

François Fénelon

I would have every minister of the gospel address his audience with the zeal of a friend with the generous energy of a father and with the exuberant affection of a mother.

François Fénelon

I love my country better than my family but I love humanity better than my country.

François Fénelon

Silence promotes the presence of God, prevents many harsh and proud words, and suppresses many dangers in the way of ridiculing or harshly judging our neighbors … If you are faithful in keeping silence when it is not necessary to speak, God will preserve you from evil when it is right for you to talk.

François Fénelon

Those who correct others should watch for the Holy Spirit to go ahead of them and touch a person’s heart. Learn to imitate Him who reproves gently. . . .When you become outraged over a person’s fault, it is generally not “righteous indignation” but your own impatient personality expressing itself. Here is the imperfect pointing a finger at the imperfect. The more you selfishly love yourself, the more critical you will be. Self-love cannot forgive the self- love it discovers in others. Nothing is so offensive to a haughty, conceited heart as the sight of another one.God’s love, however, is full of consideration, patience, and tenderness. It leads people out of their weakness and sin one step at a time.

critical, god-s-love, holy-spirit, outraged, self-love, sin

François Fénelon

True prayer is only another name for the love of God. Its excellence does not consist in the multitude of our words; for our Father knoweth what things we have need of before we ask Him. The true prayer is that of the heart, and the heart prays only for what it desires. To pray, then is to desire — but to desire what God would have us desire. He who asks what he does not from the bottom of his heart desire, is mistaken in thinking that he prays.

desire, honesty, love-of-god, prayer

François Fénelon

All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers… Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.

humanity, humans, nationalism, patriotism, war

François Fénelon

Little faults become great, and even monstrous in our eyes, in proportion as the pure light of God increases in us; just as the sun in rising, reveals the true dimensions of objects which were dimly and confusedly discovered during the night.

self-improvement, self-knowledge, sin, spiritual-growth

François Fénelon

Children are very nice observers, and they will often perceive our slightest defects. It general those who govern children forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

François Fénelon

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.

glory, inspirational, pain, pleasure, vanity, wisdom

François Fénelon

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.