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Francois Fenelon Quotes: Crosses are of no use to us but inasmuch as we yield ourselves up to them and forget ourselves.
         

Crosses are of no use to us but inasmuch as we yield ourselves up to them and forget ourselves.


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The greatest of all crosses is self. If we die in part every day, we shall have but little to do on the last. These little daily deaths will destroy the power of the final dying.



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Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.



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