Our heart is made for God, and God constantly entices it and never ceases to cast before it the allurements of divine love. Yet five things impede the operation of this holy attraction:
- sin, which removes us from God;
- affection for riches;
- sensual pleasures;
- pride and vanity;
- self-love, together with the multitude of disordered passions it brings forth, which are like a heavy load wearing it down.sin, pride, greed, self-love
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
