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Since God is love, that which He creates to His image is love, and the relationship between Father and Son is but the loving gift of self and union in Love.

When God's love takes possession of a heart, it transforms it, it makes human love divine, so to speak.

To belong wholly to God, to give oneself to Him, to His service, for love, this is the vocation, not only of all the elect but of every Christian; whether consecrated or not, man or woman.

Our Beloved does not need our brilliant deeds nor our beautiful thoughts. If He wanted sublime concepts, has He not the angels, who surpass in knowledge the greatest geniuses of the world?

The lover looks not at the gifts, but turns himself to the Giver, above all goods.

God communicates Himself to the soul in this interior union with a love so intense that the love of a mother who tenderly caresses her child, the love of a brother or the affection of a friend bears no resemblance to it.

And those alone acquire wisdom of God who are like ignorant children, and, laying aside their knowledge, walk in His service with love.

To acquire the holy love of God the best means is to live in the presence of God.

It is noteworthy, then, that love is the soul's inclination, strength, and power in making its way to God, for love unites it with God.

What does it profit you to give God one thing if he asks of you another? Consider what it is God wants, and then do it. You will as a result satisfy your heart better than with something toward which you yourself are inclined.

For we must not be without our cross, even as our Beloved had his cross, until he died the death of love.

At the evening of life, you will be examined in love.