Rays of Light

Rays of Light

As soon as we begin to think how happy we are, and to dwell upon and to please ourselves with the thought, the joy itself becomes an offence, and diffuses a secret but destructive influence through the inward life. To be happy in our own happiness, instead of being happy in God, is to drink from a cistern of our own construction, a broken cistern which can hold no water. Fenelon says, that: “The most eminent graces are the deadliest poisons, if we rest in them and regard them with complacency. It is the sin, of the fallen angels: which was that they turned to themselves and regarded with complacency their state; at that instant they fell from heaven and became the enemies of God.”