God showed frequently in all the revelations that man continually performs His will and His honor everlastingly, without any ceasing.' (And what this action is was shown in the first revelation, and that on a wonderful basis: for it was shown in the operation of the soul of Our Blessed Lady Saint Mary, by truth and wisdom.)
And I hope, by the grace of the Holy Spirit, I shall say what I understood of how this should be.
Truth perceives God, and Wisdom contemplates God, and from these two comes the third, and that is a holy, wonderful delight in God, which is Love. Where Truth and Wisdom are, in truth, there is Love, truly proceeding from them both, and all are of God's creation.
For He is eternal supreme Truth, eternal supreme Wisdom, eternal supreme Love uncreated; and man's soul is a created thing in God, which has the same divine qualities except created.
And continually the soul does what it was made for: it perceives God, it contemplates God, and it loves God.
Because of this God rejoices in the creature and the creature in God, endlessly marveling. In this marveling the creature sees his God, his Lord, his Creator, so high, so great, and so good in reference to himself who is created, that scarcely does the creature seem anything at all by himself; but the clarity and the purity of truth and wisdom cause him to see and to recognize that he is created because of love, and in this love God endlessly keeps him.
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“One evening, at a loss for words to tell Jesus how much I loved Him and how much I wished that He might be everywhere served and glorified, I reflected with pain that not one act of love would ever mount upwards from out of the depths of hell. Then I cried out that willingly would I consent to see myself plunged into that place of torment and blasphemy, in order that He might be loved there eternally. That could not really glorify Him since He desires only our happiness, but love makes one want to say a thousand foolish things. If I spoke thus, it was not that I did not long for heaven; but then, my heaven was none other than Love, and in my fervor I felt that nothing could separate me from the Divine object of my love. . . .”
- St.Therese
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