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Selections From Pere Lallemant: II. Perfection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

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Truly to seek God implies that we consider him above all as the first principle of both nature and grace, then as the conserver of all being, and thirdly as the sovereign master who governs every creature and arranges everything by his providence. Hence we should consider all events, even the smallest, as manifestations of God’s will and pleasure.

Seeking God means willing nothing and desiring nothing except what he wills and arranges by his providence. We should consider as it were two acts in God in our regard: one by which he wills to give us certain graces to lead us to a certain degree of glory if we are faithful to him, and the other by which he does not will to give us more grace or raise us to a higher degree of glory than this. Few people have enough courage and fidelity to fulfil God’s purpose, and reach by their co-operation that degree of grace and glory which God desires.

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Copyright © 1958 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

References

1 Psalm lxxii, 26.

2 Psalm xiii, 3.

3 Wisdom i, 5.

4 Romans viii, 6.