Name: Maxims of the Saints From Francois Fenelon: Archbishop of Cambray
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Author: Upham, Thomas C. ; Fenelon, Francois
ISBN: 9781719076975

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Maxims of the Saints From Francois Fenelon: Archbishop of Cambray

Type

Physical Book

Author

Francois Fenelon

Translated by

Thomas C. Upham

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3 x 12.7 x 0.4 cm

Weight

0.08 kg.

ISBN13

9781719076975

Synopsis "Maxims of the Saints From Francois Fenelon: Archbishop of Cambray"

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is known no more; not because it is wrong to regard and to desire our own good, but because the object of desire is withdrawn from our notice.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.

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