20 May 2021
On Divine Love
Love
is an excellent thing, a very great blessing, indeed. It makes every difficulty
easy, and bears all wrongs with equanimity. For it bears a burden without being
weighted and renders sweet all that is bitter. The noble love of Jesus spurs to
great deeds and excites longing for that which is more perfect. Love tends
upward; it will not be held down by anything low. Love wishes to be free and
estranged from all worldly affections, lest its inward sight be obstructed, lest
it be entangled in any temporal interest and overcome by adversity.
Nothing
is sweeter than love, nothing stronger or higher or wider; nothing is more
pleasant, nothing fuller, and nothing better in heaven or on earth, for love is
born of God and cannot rest except in God, Who is above all created things.
Thomas à Kempis
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