St. Francis de Sales on entrusting all our love to God
1 min • Digitized on December 11, 2021
From The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales, page 66
By His friend, Jean Pierre Camus, Bishop of Belley
Upon not putting limits to our love of God.
Blessed Francis used to say that those who narrow their charity, limiting it to the performance of certain duties and offices, beyond which they would not take a single step, are base and cowardly souls, who seem as though they wished to enclose in their own hands the mighty Spirit of God. Seeing that God is greater than our heart, what folly it is to try to shut Him up within so small a circle.
On this subject of the immeasurable greatness of the love which we should bear to God, he uttered these remarkable words:
To remain long in a settled, unchanging condition is impossible: in this traffic he who does not gain, loses; he who does not mount this ladder, steps down; he who is not conqueror in this combat, is vanquished.
We live in the midst of battles in which our enemies are always engaging us. If we do not fight we perish; but we cannot fight without overcoming, nor overcome without victory, followed by a triumph and a crown.