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  WHO HAS LOVE, HAS ALL.
  by Francois Fenelon
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Summary: Francois Fenelon's sermon emphasizes that true love for God is
foundational to the Christian life and encompasses all other virtues.

Topics: "Christian Love", "Spiritual Growth"
Scripture References: Deuteronomy 6:5, Matthew 22:37, Romans 5:8, 1 Corinthians 13:2, Galatians 5:6, 1 Peter 4:8, 1 John 4:7, 1 John 4:19

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Francois Fenelon emphasizes the importance of having love, stating that
whoever possesses love has everything. He encourages maintaining
faithfulness in religious practices even when lacking pleasure in them,
highlighting the purity and safety of fidelity sustained without
emotional delights. Fenelon advises engaging in Christian conversations
with trusted family members and daily reading and reflection to gain
strength for the sacrifices required by God, emphasizing that love for
God is the key to fulfilling all other aspects of life.

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LETTER XXVIII.

Who has love, has all.

I have thought frequently, since yesterday, on the matters you
communicated to me, and I have increasing confidence that God will
sustain you. Though you take no great pleasure in religious exercises,
you must not neglect to be faithful in them, as far as your health will
permit. A convalescent has but little appetite, but he must eat to
sustain life.

It would be very serviceable to you, if you could occasionally have a
few minutes of Christian converse with such of your family as you can
confide in, and, as to the choice, be guided in perfect liberty by your
impressions at the moment. God does not call you by any lively emotions,
and I heartily rejoice at it, if you will but remain faithful; for a
fidelity, unsustained by delights, is far purer, and safer from danger,
than one accompanied by those tender feelings, which may be seated too
exclusively in the imagination. A little reading and recollection every
day, will be the means of insensibly giving you light and strength for
all the sacrifices God will require of you. Love Him, and I will acquit
you of everything else; for everything else will come by love. I do not
ask from you a love tender and emotional, but only that your will should
lean towards love, and that, notwithstanding all the corrupt desires of
your heart, you should prefer God before self and the whole world.

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/francois-fenelon/who-has-love-has-all/
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