Selections from the Writings of Fenelon: With a Memoir of His Life

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Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, 1829 - 294 páginas

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Página 275 - The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness. 35 Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.
Página 23 - Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Página 119 - The one is intoxicated with all it sees around it ; the other with all that it imagines it has within ; but it is delirium in both. To be absorbed in the contemplation of our own minds is really worse than to be engrossed by outward things, because it appears like wisdom and yet is not; we do not think of curing it; we pride ourselves upon it; we approve of it; it gives us an unnatural strength ; it is a sort of frenzy ; we are not conscious of it; we are dying, and we think ourselves in health.
Página 14 - In the course of his walks, he would often join the peasants, sit down with them on the grass, talk with them, and console them. He visited them in their cottages, seated himself at table with them, and partook of their humble meals. By such kindness apd familiarity, he won their affections, and gained access to their minds.
Página 15 - Another anecdote, showing his tenderness to the poor, is thus related of him. A literary man, whose library was destroyed by fire, has been deservedly admired for saying, " I should have profited but little by my books, if they had not taught me how to bear the loss of them.
Página 109 - ... begin to cure them. We must neither flatter nor be impatient with ourselves, in the correction of our faults. Despondency is not a state of humility ; on the contrary it is the vexation and despair of a cowardly pride — nothing is worse ; whether we stumble or whether we fall, we must only think of rising again and going on in our course.
Página 15 - Alas! my lord,' said the poor man, ' in making my escape from my cottage, I had not time to bring off my cow, which was the support of my family. The enemy will drive her away, and I shall never find another so good.
Página 125 - ... take the affectation of modesty for modesty itself, and who have no knowledge of true simplicity. This true simplicity has sometimes a careless and irregular appearance, but it has the charm of truth and candor, and sheds around it, I know not what of...
Página 195 - ... believe in the pervasive and ever-guiding spirit of God ; but I do not believe it was ever shut up within the covers of any book, or that it ever can be. Portions of it, or rather breathings of it, are in many books. The words of Christ seem to me full of it as no other words are. But if we want truth we must listen to the voice of God in the silence of our soul, as he did.

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