Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
Francois FenelonIt is not the multitude of hard duties, it is not the constraint and contention that advance us in our Christian course. On the contrary, it is the yielding of our wills without restriction and without choice to tread cheerfully every day in the path in which Providence leads us. It is to seek nothing, to be discouraged by nothing, to see our duty in the present moment, and to trust all else without reserve to the will and power of God.
Francois FenelonGod 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.
Francois FenelonWhen kings interfere in matters of religion, they enslave instead of protecting it.
Francois Fenelon