Consider the eternal love God has borne
you… When did He begin to love you? When He began to be God, and that was never, for He ever was, without beginning and without end. Even so He always loved you from eternity,
and therefore He made ready all the graces and gifts with which He has endowed
you. He says by His prophet, I have loved thee (and it is you that He
means) with an everlasting love, therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn
thee…
--St. Francis de
Sales,
Introduction to the Devout Life,
Part V, Chapter XIV
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