Les Principales Propositions Du Livre Des Maximes Des Saints De Fenelon Justifiees Par Des Expressions Plus Fortes Des Ss Auteurs Additions Additions Et Corrections

Author : Francois Fenelon
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781719070850
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (78 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Maxims of the Saints from Francois Fenelon written by Francois Fenelon and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-13 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt: ARTICLE SECOND I. Of the subjects of this mixed love all are not equally advanced. II. Mixed love becomes pure love, when the love of self is relatively, though not absolutely, lost in a regard to the will of God. This is always the case, when the two objects are loved in their due proportion. So that pure love is mixed love when it is combined rightly. III. Pure love is not inconsistent with mixed love, but is mixed love carried to its true result. When this result is at-tained, the motive of God's glory so expands itself, and so fills the mind, that the other motive, that of our own happiness, becomes so small, and so recedes from our inward notice, as to be practically annihilated. It is then that God becomes what He ever ought to be the center of the soul, to which all its affections tend; the great moral sun of the soul, from which all its light and all its warmth proceed. It is then that a man thinks no more of himself. He has become the man of a "single eye." His own happiness, and all that regards himself, is entirely lost sight of in his simple and fixed look to God's will and God's glory. IV. We lay ourselves at His feet. Self is known no more; not because it is wrong to regard and to desire our own good, but because the object of desire is withdrawn from our notice. When the sun shines, the stars disappear. When God is in the soul who can think of himself? So that we love God, and God alone; and all other things in and for God.