"Love is a strong force — a great good in
every way; it alone can make our burdens light, and alone it bears in equal
balance what is pleasing and displeasing. It carries a burden and does not feel
it; it makes all that is bitter taste sweet. ... Nothing is sweeter than love,
nothing higher, nothing stronger, nothing larger, nothing more joyful, nothing
fuller, nothing better in heaven or on earth; for love is born of God and can
find its rest only in God above all He has created. Such lovers fly high, run swiftly
and rejoice. Their souls are free; they give all for all and have all in all.
For they rest in One supreme Goodness above all things, from Whom all other
good flows and proceeds. They look not only at the gifts, but at the Giver, Who
is above all gifts."
— Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, p.
108
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