This love should not be considered better, or more perfect. Love will come quite naturally without a great struggle to the first. If two people, the one loving and docile by nature, the other inconsiderate and offensive, have equal love, they may love God equally, but not in the same way. This risk accompanies the capability of loving. While some souls have a natural tendency to love God, they are always at great risk of being diverted from the purity of sacred love by a mixture of other loves. This love lives independently in the ultimate place of the spirit. I have written in this treatise of the mystical love that God pours into our hearts. Guidance for Practising Divine Love by St Francis De SalesĪll the passages below are taken from St Francis De Sales’ book “ Living Love-A Modern Edition of Treatise on the Love of God.” It was edited by Bernard Bangley and published in 2003.
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