Fénelon, the seventeenth-century spiritual master, put it well: A traveller who is marching across a vast plain sees nothing ahead of him but a slight rise which ends the distant horizon. When he tops this rise, he finds a new stretch of country as vast as the first. Thus, in the way of self-renunciation, we think we see everything at once. We think that we are holding nothing back, and that we are not clinging to ourselves or to anything else. We should rather die than hesitate to make a complete sacrifice. But, in the daily round, God constantly shows us new countries. We find in our hearts
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