Crosses are of no use to us but inasmuch as we yield ourselves up to them and forget ourselves.
Francois FenelonAll 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.
Francois FenelonIt is when God appears to have abandoned us that we must abandon ourselves most wholly to God.
Francois FenelonNothing is more false and more indiscreet than always to want to choose what mortifies us in everything. By this rule a person would soon ruin his health, his business, his reputation, his relations with his relatives and friends, in fact every good work which Providence gives him.
Francois Fenelon