If you have never read Francois Fenelon, you are missing a great man of God's insights and wisdom. He lived from 1651 to 1715, a Bishop and wise scholar and teacher. Here is an introduction to what he believed, well worth the read. 

 

  "What then are Fenelon's characteristic views?  We begin with his views of God, which very much determine and color a religious system, and these are simple and affecting. He seems to regard God but in one light, to think of Him but in one character. God always comes to him as the father, as the pitying and purifying friend of the soul. This  spiritual relation of the Supreme Being is his all comprehending, all absorbing attribute. He constantly sets before us God as dwelling in the human mind, and dwelling to reprove is guilt, to speak to it with a still voice, to kindle a celestial ray in its darkness, to distill upon it His grace, to call forth its love towards Himself, and to bow it, by a gentle, rational sway, to chosen, cheerful, entire subjection to His pure and righteous will. Fenelon  has fully received the Christian doctrine of God. He believed in Him as the Universal Father, as loving every soul, loving the guiltiest  soul, and striving with it to reclaim it to Himself. This interest of the Creator in the lost and darkened mind, is the thought which predominates in the writings of the excellent man."