It’s Fénelon Friday!
People cannot become perfect by dint of hearing or reading about perfection. The chief thing is not to listen to yourself, but silently to listen to God; to renounce all vanity, and apply yourself to real virtues; to talk little, and to do much, without caring to be seen. God will teach you much more than all the most experienced persons and all the most spiritual books. Do you need to be learned in order to know how to love God and to deny yourself His love? You know much more of good than you practice. You have much less need of gaining fresh knowledge than of putting in practice that which you have already acquired.
François Fénelon, “To Prefer Love and Humility to Learning,” in Dialogues of Fénelon Vol. 1, ed. Mark Hamby, (Waverly: Lamplighter Publishing, 2007) Page 94.
Learning To Be Full Of Grace And Truth. 