"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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