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That love of self, which the world advocates, is a thousand times more dangerous than any poison.

That love of self, which the world advocates, is a thousand times more dangerous than any poison.

Francois Fenelon
Self, Suffering, Poison

O God, the creature knows not to what end Thou hast made Him; teach him, and write in the depths of his soul that the clay must suffer itself to be shaped at the will of the potter.

Francois Fenelon
Writing, Soul, Suffering
Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.98, Lulu.com

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.

Francois Fenelon
Self, Suffering, Crosses
Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.118, Lulu.com

This is the love that does all things; that brings to pass even the evils we suffer; so shaping them that they are but instruments of preparing the good which, as yet, has not arrived.

Francois Fenelon
Evil, Suffering, Doe
Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.14, Lulu.com

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