How desirable is this simplicity! Who will give it to me? I will quit all else; it is the pearl of great price.
Francois FenelonThe gifts of God are not to be rejected on account of the channel that brings them.
Francois FenelonThe smallest things become great when God requires them of us; they are small only in themselves; they are always great when they are done for God.
Francois FenelonI am not in the least surprised that your impression of death becomes more lively, in proportion as age and infirmity bring it nearer. God makes use of this rough trial to undeceive us in respect to our courage, to make us feel our weakness, and to keep us in all humility in His hands.
Francois FenelonA good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.
Francois FenelonIt is this unquiet self-love that renders us so sensitive. The sick man, who sleeps ill, thinks the night long. We exaggerate, from cowardice, all the evils which we encounter; they are great, but our sensibility increases them. The true way to bear them is to yield ourselves up with confidence to God.
Francois Fenelon