How do we love our enemies as
the instruments used by God's goodness to train us to self-denial and to help us - not only in our future salvation - but
in greater sanctification of our daily life?
It actually consists in knowing
the infinite greatness and goodness of
God, together with a true sense of our weakness and tendency to evil, in
loving God and hating ourselves, in humbling ourselves not only before Him, but
for His sake, before all men, in renouncing entirely our own will in order to
follow His. It consists, finally, in doing all of this solely for the glory of
His Holy Name, for only one purpose-----to please Him, for only one motive-----that
He should be loved and served by all His creatures.
Taken
from the book of the same title by DOM LORENZO SCUPOLI - with Imprimatur
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