"Love is
sufficient of itself, it gives pleasure by itself and because of itself. It is
its own merit, its own reward. Love looks for no cause outside itself, no effect
beyond itself. Its profit lies in its practice.
Of all the movements, sensations and feelings of
the soul, love is the only one in which the creature can respond to the Creator
and make some sort of similar return however unequal though it be. For when God
loves, all he desires is to be loved in return; the sole purpose of his love is
to be loved, in the knowledge that those who love him are made happy by their
love of him."
St. Bernard, Pray For Us!
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