Friday, April 18, 2014

Simplicity... doing everything for love of God



Simplicity... consists in doing everything for love of God and having no other aim in all our actions but His glory. All the acts of this virtue consist in saying things simply, without duplicity or subtlety, being straightforward, with no evasion or subterfuge. So then, simplicity means doing everything for love of God, rejecting any admixture, because simplicity implies the absence of any composition. (22 August 1659; SV XII, 246)