The gifts of God are not to be rejected on account of the channel that brings them.
Francois FenelonTrouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.
Francois FenelonAll earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.
Francois FenelonThe blood of a nation ought never to be shed except for its own preservation in the utmost extremity.
Francois FenelonI had often heard Mentor say, that the voluptuous were never brave, and I now found by experience that it was true; for the Cyprians whose jollity had been so extravagant and tumultuous, now sunk under a sense of their danger and wept like women. I heard nothing but the screams of terror and the wailings of hopeless distress. Some lamented the loss of pleasures that were never to return; but none had presence of mind either to undertake or direct the navigation of the menaced vessel.
Francois Fenelon