I was penetrated with so lively a dart of pure love, that I could not resolve to abridge, by indulgences, the pain due to my sins. "O my Love," I cried, "I am willing to suffer for You. I find no other pleasure but in suffering for You. Indulgences may be good for those who do not know the value of sufferings, who do not choose that Your divine justice should be satisfied, who, having mercenary souls, are not so much afraid of displeasing You, as of the pains annexed to sin."
Jeanne Guyon: An Autobiography. Witaker House, New Kensington, PA (1997). Page 50.
(Madame Guyon lived from 1647 to 1717)
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