Excerpt from Saint Francis of Sales
It is generally recognised that St. Francis of Sales belongs to the school of modern Saints; that is, of those Saints who not only lived at or after the Renaissance, but who also account of what was good and evil in it, and shaped their Christianity under its influence.
Owing to the difficulty, nay, the impossibility, of separating the healthy from the morbid and predominant elements of the pagan culture with which Christianity was first confronted, an attitude of unqualified hostility was the only thing then practically possible. As Matthew Arnold would say, it was the Hebraistic and not the Hellenistic side of human perfection that most needed emphasis and protection in those days; it was the sense of the sovereign rights of God and conscience; the duty of struggling and fighting for truth and right that had to be secured, rather than any kind of ethical nicety or delicate finish of character. Strength was the first consideration, sweetness might come after as its efflorescence.
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