209 Quotes by François Fénelon

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.

People who have no secrets from each other never want for a subject of conversation. They do not weigh their words, for there is nothing to be held back, neither do they seek for something to say. They talk out of the abundance of their heart, without consideration they say just what they think. Blessed are they who attain to such familiar, unreserved intercourse with God.

Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation - speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.

A general rule for the good use of time is to accustom oneself to live in a continual dependence on the Spirit of God.

Little opportunities should be improved.

The more you say, the less people remember.

If the crowns of all the kingdoms of the empire were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading I would spurn them all.

That love of self, which the world advocates, is a thousand times more dangerous than any poison.

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