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Consider the eternal love which God has borne to you; for even before our Blessed Lord Jesus Christ became man and suffered on the cross for you, His Divine majesty foresaw you in His sovereign goodness, and loved you exceedingly. When did He begin to love you? When He began to be God. And when was His beginning? Never, for He has always been, without beginning and without end: wherefore He has always loved you, and from eternity prepared the graces which He has bestowed upon you. And by His prophet He says (and He speaks to you as much as to any), "I have loved thee with an everlasting love; therefore have I drawn thee, taking pity on thee" (Jer. xxxi. 3). Amongst other things, then, He thought to lead you to resolve on serving Him.

Francis de Sales — St. Francis of Sales, An Introduction to the Devout Life, a new translation edited by Walter J. B. Richards (London: Burns & Oates, 1878), Part I, ch. XIV, "Fifth Reflection: of God's eternal love towards us," pp. 336–337

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St. Francis of Sales, An Introduction to the Devout Life, a new translation edited by Walter J. B. Richards (London: Burns & Oates, 1878), Part I, ch. XIV, "Fifth Reflection: of God's eternal love towards us," pp. 336–337

Francis de Sales, St. Francis of Sales, An Introduction to the Devout Life, a new translation edited by Walter J. B. Richards (London: Burns & Oates, 1878), Part I, ch. XIV, "Fifth Reflection: of God's eternal love towards us," pp. 336–337 (archive.org) - St. Francis of Sales, An Introduction to the Devout Life, a new translation edited by Walter J. B. Richards (London: Burns & Oates, 1878), Part I, ch. XIV, "Fifth Reflection: of God's eternal love towards us," pp. 336–337

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