209 Quotes by François Fénelon

Let gratitude for the past inspire us with trust for the future.

God felt, God tasted and enjoyed is indeed God, but God with those gifts which flatter the soul, God in darkness, in privation, in forsakenness, in sensibility, is so much God, that he is so to speak God bare and alone. Shall we fear this death, which is to produce in us the true divine life of grace?

Listen less to your own thoughts and more to God's thoughts.

It is only by fidelity in little things that the grace of true love to God can be sustained, and distinguished from a passing fervor of spirit. . . . No one can well believe that our piety is sincere, when our behavior is lax and irregular in its little details. What probability is there that we should not hesitate to make the greatest sacrifices, when we shrink from the smallest?

Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.

You really don't even own the present moment, for even this belongs to God.

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.

To be faithful in prayer it is indispensable that we arrange all the activities of the day with a regularity that nothing can disturb

There were some who said that a man at the point of death was more free than all others, because death breaks every bond, and over the dead the united world has no power.