No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades; it only makes hypocrites.
Francois FenelonI believe that we are conforming to the divine order and the will of Providence when we are doing even indifferent things that belong to our condition.
Francois FenelonThe Christian life is a long and continual tendency of our hearts toward that eternal goodness which we desire on earth. All our happiness consists in thirsting for it. Now this thirst is prayer. Ever desire to approach your Creator, and you will never cease to pray. Do not think it necessary to pronounce many words.
Francois FenelonGod 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?
Francois Fenelon