Saint Francis de Sales
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"Almost all those who have written concerning the devout life have had chiefly in view persons who have altogether quitted the world; or at any rate they have taught a manner of devotion which would lead to such total retirement. But my object is to teach those who are living in their own households, and whose calling obliges them to a social life, so far as externals are concerned. And so I have shown them that a true steadfast soul may live in the...
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This Treatise, which I now present you, may be in some way serviceable to you, and that in it you will meet with many wholesome considerations, which you would not elsewhere so easily find. We all look towards the glory of holy love. my intention is only to represent simply and naively, without art, still more without false colors, the history of the birth, progress, decay, operations, properties, advantages and excellences of divine love. This Treatise...
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Almost all those who have written concerning the devout life have had chiefly in view persons who have altogether quitted the world; or at any rate they have taught a manner of devotion which would lead to such total retirement. But, my object is to teach those who are living in their own households, and whose calling obliges them to a social life, so far as externals are concerned. And so, I have shown them that a true steadfast soul may live in...