State of perfect love (Christianity)

François Fénelon indicates that in all who feel pure love for God, the motive of God's glory so fills the mind that the motive of one's own happiness is practically annihilated. God becomes the centre of the soul to whom all affections tend, the sun from whom all light and warmth proceed. Ones own happiness and all that regards one's self is lost sight of. God alone is loved, all other things in and for God. In this state of perfect love the individual has all moral and Christian virtues in himself, since love is the foundation, source or principle of all the virtues (St Augustine).

This highest religious state has also been referred to as a state of transformation. The soul has no preferences of itself, it will move in any direction God gives it.