Francois Fenelon Quotes

Time spent in prayer is never wasted.

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

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

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 in an exemption from, suffering.

If we were faultless, we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.

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

Lord, I know not what I ought to ask of you. O, Father, give to your child what he himself knows not how to ask. Teach me to pray. Pray yourself in me.

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.

Tell God all that is in your heart, as one unloads one's heart, its pleasures and its pains, to a dear friend. Tell God your troubles, that God may comfort you; tell God your joys, that God may sober them; tell God your longings, that God may purify them; tell God your dislikes, that God may help you conquer them; talk to God of your temptations, that God may shield you from them: show God the wounds of your heart, that God may heal them. If you thus pour out all your weaknesses, needs, troubles, there will be no lack of what to say. Talk out of the abundance of the heart, without consideration say just what you think. Blessed are they who attain to such familiar, unreserved intercourse with God.

The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater profit.