“THAT kingdom of God which is within us, consists in our willing whatever God wills, always, in everything, and without reservation; and thus His kingdom comes; for His will is then done as it is in Heaven, since we will nothing but what is dictated by His sovereign pleasure. We will whatever He wills; what He does not will, we do not; we attach our feeble wills to that all-powerful one that regulates everything. Thus nothing can ever come to pass against our wishes; for nothing can happen contrary to the will of God, and we find in His good pleasure an inexhaustible source of peace and consolation. There are no longer any evils; for even the most terrible that come upon us, work together for good, as St. Paul says, to those that love God. (Rom. viii. 28.)”
— Archbishop François Fénelon (1715)
