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If we love Him infinitely more than we do ourselves, we make an unconditional sacrifice of ourselves to His good pleasure, desiring only to love Him … - François Fénelon
" "If we love Him infinitely more than we do ourselves, we make an unconditional sacrifice of ourselves to His good pleasure, desiring only to love Him and to forget ourselves. He who thus loses his soul shall find it again with eternal life.
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About François Fénelon
François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, Archbishop of Cambrai (August 6 1651 – January 7 1715) was a French educationalist, critic, poet, and political and religious philosopher.
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François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon
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Fénelon
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Phenelon
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Franz von Fenelon
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Francis Fenelon
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abbé de Fénélon
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François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon
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