Francois Fénelon citáty
Francois Fénelon
Datum narození: 6. srpen 1651
Datum úmrtí: 7. leden 1715
François Fénelon, plným jménem François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon byl francouzský teolog, básník a spisovatel, od roku 1696 arcibiskup v Cambrai. Byl zastáncem kvietismu.
Jeho nejznámějším literárním dílem jsou Příhody Telemachovy , jež napsal jako vychovatel burgundského vévody Ludvíka, vnuka Ludvíka XIV., pro svého svěřence.
Citáty Francois Fénelon
„True love goes ever straight forward, not in its own strength, but esteeming itself as nothing. Then indeed we are truly happy. The cross is no longer a cross when there is no self to suffer under it.“
— François Fénelon
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 396.
„A cross borne in simplicity, without the interference of self-love to augment it, is only half a cross. Suffering in this simplicity of love, we are not only happy in spile of the cross, but because of it; for love is pleased in suffering for the Well Beloved, and the cross which forms us into His image is a consoling bond of love.“
— François Fénelon
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 169.
„God's treasury where He keeps His children's gifts will be like many a mother's store of relics of her children, full of things of no value to others, but precious in His eyes for the love's sake that was in them.“
— François Fénelon
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 262.
„There is but one way in which God should be loved, and that is to take no step except with Him and for Him, and to follow with a generous self-abandonment every thing which He requires.“
— François Fénelon
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 542.
„We may be sure that it is the love of God only that can make us come out of self. If His powerful hand did not sustain us, we should not know how to take the first step in that direction.“
— François Fénelon
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 270.
„Commit yourself then to God! He will be your guide. He Himself will travel with you, as we are told He did with the Israelites, to bring them step by step across the desert to the promised land. Ah! what will be your blessedness, if you will but surrender yourself into the hands of God, permitting Him to do whatever He will, not according to your desires, but according to His own good pleasure?“
— François Fénelon
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 601.
„We sleep in peace in the arms of God when we yield ourselves up to His providence, in a delightful consciousness of His tender mercies; no more restless uncertainties, no more anxious desires, no more impatience at the place we are in, for it is God who has put us there, and who holds us in His arms. Can we be unsafe where He has placed us, and where He watches over us as a parent watches a child? This confiding repose, in which earthly care sleeps, is the true vigilance of the heart; yielding itself up to God, with no other support than Him, it thus watches while we sleep. This is the love of Him that will not sleep even in death.“
— François Fénelon
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 600.
„We must bear our crosses; self is the greatest of them all. If we die in part every day of our lives, we shall have but little to do on the last. O how utterly will these little daily deaths destroy the power of the final dying!“
— François Fénelon
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 170.
„This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave; it is but misery, vanity, and folly; a phantom, — the very fashion of which "passeth away."“
— François Fénelon
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 206.
