God felt, God tasted and enjoyed is indeed God, but God with those gifts which flatter the soul, … - Francois Fenelon

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Francois Fenelon

God felt, God tasted and enjoyed is indeed God, but God with those gifts which flatter the soul, God in darkness, in privation, in forsakenness, in sensibility, is so much God, that he is so to speak God bare and alone. Shall we fear this death, which is to produce in us the true divine life of grace?

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God is so good that He only awaits our desire to overwhelm us with the gift of himself.

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To just read the Bible, attend church, and avoid “big” sins-is this passionate, wholehearted love for God?

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I had often heard Mentor say, that the voluptuous were never brave, and I now found by experience that it was true; for the Cyprians whose jollity had been so extravagant and tumultuous, now sunk under a sense of their danger and wept like women. I heard nothing but the screams of terror and the wailings of hopeless distress. Some lamented the loss of pleasures that were never to return; but none had presence of mind either to undertake or direct the navigation of the menaced vessel.

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We may as well tolerate all religions, since God Himself tolerates all.

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There is no more dangerous illusion than the fancies by which people try to avoid illusion.

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