Chapter 3LouisEns.1.3
Le profit d'amer Dieu
The Profit of Divine Love
True profit is found by centering the heart's love exclusively on God.
Dear daughter, if you love him, the benefit will be yours. A creature is far off the path who sets the love of their heart anywhere else except in him or under him.1
Read the original Latin
Chiere fille, se vos lamez, le proufit en sera vostre. La créature est mout hors voie, qui met ailleurs lamour de son cuer, fors en lui ou souz lui.
Notes
- 1 ↩Old French «souz lui» (under him) keeps the classical ordered-love sense: creatures may be loved only as subordinate to God, not as rivals to him.
Teachings to His Daughter Isabelle companion
Rule yourself daily, not just on retreat
Chosen Portion turns the mirror into a daily practice — a short reading and examining question each morning before you lead anyone.
Chosen Portion makes the mirror daily: the ruler-formation questions this collection preserves become a two-minute morning examination in the app.
- A daily formation reading drawn from centuries of counsel to those in authority
- One pointed examination question a day — two minutes, before the meetings start
- Track your practice over weeks and watch the examined life become a habit