The True Christian Life Found in Some of the "Mystics" as Tozer Knew. This is Fenelon.

A brief You Tube video about A W Tozer mentioned that it was Tozer's discovering of a book by Francois Fenelon that most affected the course of his life, that he cherished this book to the extent of never letting anyone borrow it. He was already well versed in the "Higher Life" writers such as Andrew Murray and Wesley and so on, but Fenelon took him to a new height, or a new depth of pursuing God Himself. From that book he went on to read the many other mystical writers that are so often these days and in Tozer's time as well despised by the Protestant leaders. I never understood this since it was those mysics who first turned me toward Christianity as I was reading my way through all the religions during my fortuies. What I found in them is what Tozer also apparently found, the love of God magnified in a way we hardly ever find it in today's churches. There are some elements in some of the mystic writers that have to be dismissed as belonging to the heresy of Roman Catholicism, but there are others whose writings are purse and biblical . Fenelon is clearly one of those. I had heard about it during my reading binge but I never actually read him so this is a discovery for me. I'm so Glad I was able to find a You Tube reading of some of his writings. This is the Christian life. It's sad that it is so neglectedd and even despised.