Extracts from the writings of Francis Fenelon ... with some memoirs of his life. To which are added letters expressive of love and friendship, the writer not known. By J. Kendall |
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 114 - I will lift up mine eyes to the hills, From whence cometh my help; My help cometh from the Lord, Who made heaven and earth.
Página 194 - It is not neceflary to form young people to defend a thefis, but to be obliged, as rational creatures, to convince themfelves of eternal truths. When youth have ftudied Religion from its firll principles, they feldom fufrer themfelves to be reduced by iophiilry and impiety, unlefs the heart be intirely corrupted.
Página 45 - Can a woman forget her sucking child, That she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Tea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
Página 186 - Marriage, when made with purity of heart, preferves young people from a multitude of dangers ; but do not reckon upon my choofing a wife for you. Your relation, with whom I have happily reconciled you, is a man of fenfe, honefty, and integrity, and in a fituation to marry you properly. Religion and reafon ought to be confulted more. than inclination, in an eftablifhment. that is to laft for life. We rarely fee marriages happy, which have no other motive than love. I do not fpeak to you of your expenfes,...
Página 72 - Lord, it is good for us to be here, let us build " three tabernacles :" but they know not what they say.
Página 58 - ... some attachments, and some desires, our peace is imperfect : when all cords are broken, then there is unbounded liberty. Let disgrace, pain, and death, fall upon me, while I hear Jesus Christ, who says to me, " Be not afraid of them that kill '•" the body, and after that, have no 'more power « that they can do."* O how weak are they, even when they deprive us of life.
Página 214 - But happily my thoughts were entirely taken up with heaven, and I exclaimed to myself, How pleasing is this cup!
Página viii - The many things which were generally admired in him were nothing in comparison of that divine life by which he walked with God like Enoch, and was unknown to men. While he watched over his flock with a daily care, he prayed in the deep retirement of internal solitude.
Página 112 - God, who is liberal and generous in all his other gifts, teaches us, by the wise economy of his Providence, how circumspect we ought to be in the right management of our time, for he never gives us two moments together; he gives us only the second, as he takes away the first, and keeps the third in his hands, leaving us in an absolute uncertainty whether it shall ever be ours or not.