Letter 30 of Saint-Cyran

Mother Marie des Anges, I have always had you within me spiritually during the five years I was in prison and you would not have all the knowledge of me that I desire that you have if you had the slightest thought that I might have been capable of forgetting you. The bonds of our friendship based entirely on charity are your virtue and your solid piety and it is impossible that I separate myself from you any more than from God who is inseparable from Christian virtue. For virtue is nothing except the first ray from God joined to himself which by a remarkable infusion gives us his Spirit with his charity. His charity alone, his divine lovingkindness alone, is along with him our virtue. That is what God inspired me to tell you along with the news of my freedom.,

Translated from the French by Daniel McNeill

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