Every reasonable soul has the true God as its source: it must choose what suits it and reject what displeases it, because it knows deep within itself what is good and what is bad. God, who is unique, conceived in the energy of his heart a precise and unique work, and this work he multiplied in a magnificent way. For God is a living fire, a fire by which souls breathe, a fire which existed before the beginning, which is the origin and the time of times. The will of God entirely penetrates the perishable world, it inspires there the end of the world, which is eternity.
The omnipotence of God has temperance made of balance, it has neither beginning nor end, and has all amplitude to accomplish what it desires, without any exception. To the perfection which allows the power of God to subdue everything is added love, as a sort of tranquility in action: it is because love perfectly accomplishes the will of God – a source of peace. Love, however, takes on different adornments, as numerous as the virtues acting in man: love is the source of all good. Man must direct all the intentions of his heart towards this true sun.
It is in this look of love that the foreknowledge of God is manifested: love and foreknowledge are in harmony with each other. (...) The man who chooses to submit to love loves what is in God, he contemplates God in the purity of his faith, he offers him nothing mortal, but settles from now on in celestial joys and God has planned from all eternity that he would come to him.