Let Go Quotes

“Let us reason little, but do much. If we are not careful, the acquisition of knowledge will so occupy this life that we shall need another to put our acquired knowledge into practice. The danger is that we imagine ourselves advanced towards perfection in proportion to our knowledge of the way. However, all our beautiful theories-rather than assisting in the death of self -only serve to nourish the life of Adam in us by a secret delight and confidence in our own illumination.”
― Fénelon, Let Go

“Give yourself up to His plans. Be led wherever He wills by His providence. Beware how you seek aid from man when God forbids it. Men can only give you what He gives them for you. Why should you be troubled that you can no longer drink from the aqueduct when you are led to the perennial spring itself from which its waters are derived?”
― François Fénelon, Let Go

“Whatever spiritual knowledge or feelings we may have, they are all a delusion if they do not lead us to the real and constant practice of dying to self.”
― François Fénelon, Let Go

“The Kingdom of God began at calvary. The cross was a necessity. When we pick up the cross of Jesus and bear it in love to Him, his Kingdom has begun in us.”
― François Fénelon, Let Go

“So, regardless of the afflictions your friend is bearing, she is blessed in being so quiet under the hand of God. If she dies, she will go to the lord; if she lives she will live FOR him.”
― François Fénelon, Let Go

“A cross which comes purely from God, and is cordially welcomed without any self-reflective acts, is at once painful and peaceful; but one unwillingly received and repelled by the life of nature, is doubly severe; the resistance within is harder to bear than the cross itself. If we recognize the hand”
― François Fénelon, Let Go