Mother Superior, I am writing you the evening before my departure for a journey to the abbey of Saint-Cyran and only to accompany your writings which I am sending you back after having reviewed them. There is nothing that diverts more these days the best religious people than flashes from great truths which should only be directions guiding us in the exercise of charity and setting it on fire within us. For if we do not receive the truth of the gospel in a heart full of the love of God, it is no longer anything more than a philosophical truth which the devil devises much better than we.
Charity must produce the truth in us and it should be born from charity like light from heat instead of as in nature where the light of the sun comes before its heat.
Live by faith, that is, by the divine lovingkindness of charity, and you will arrive by this path easily at the intelligence of all the truths of faith that you need in this life. The whole life of a Christian should be used to purge the heart of passions and imperfections to make possible knowing and seeing God, in which lies our happiness in the other world whereas in this world it lies in good works and the practice of virtue.
Translated from the French by Daniel McNeill.
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