The beauty of the human nature

  Treatise on the Love of God, Book 1, Chapter 1

To be perfect in beauty, living things must also be graceful.  This joins to a harmonious perfection of parts the additional harmony of movement, in signs and actions, which is the soul of beauty – its vital spark – in all living things.

(Read further in Treatise on the Love of God, Book 1, Chapter 1)

  "Walk in the presence of God in holy and absolute liberty of spirit"

(Letters of Spiritual Direction, Theme IV)

The Salesian experience of God is in the midst.  But the quality of that experience, while contoured by the busyness and the personal relationships that surround it, is not wholly defined by the bustle, noise, and impingement  that must necessarily be found there.  The Salesian spirit instead bespeaks a God that bestows a spacious liberty on humankind.

(Read further in Letters of Spiritual Direction, Theme IV)

Dignity of Human Person in St. Francis de Sales

  Studies in Salesian Spirituality, Human Person in St. Francis de Sales, No. 10

(Read further in Thomas Aerathedathu, Dignity of Human Person in St. Francis de Sales, in Studies in Salesian Spirituality)

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