209 Quotes by François Fénelon

Crosses are of no use to us but inasmuch as we yield ourselves up to them and forget ourselves.

Nothing is so costly as the pursuit of a cure for imaginary ills.

There is no real elevation of mind in a contempt of little things; it is, on the contrary, from too narrow views that we consider those things of little importance which have in fact such extensive consequences.

We may be sure that it is the love of God only that can make us come out of self. If His powerful hand did not sustain us, we should not know how to take the first step in that direction.

God has not chosen to save us without crosses; as He has not seen fit to create men at once in the full vigor of manhood, but has suffered them to grow up by degrees amid all the perils and weaknesses of youth.

It is when God appears to have abandoned us that we must abandon ourselves most wholly to God.

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

When you come to be sensibly touched, the scales will fall from your eyes; and by the penetrating eyes of love you will discern that which your other eyes will never see.

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.